(UK) - The religious right was trounced last night. An attempt to neuter new laws protecting gay people against discrimination was defeated, 199 votes to 68. It was mostly a sad, embittered posse of elderly, die-hard, anti-Cameron Tories and Ulster Unionists who voted to allow religious organisations the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians. They wanted to permit religious doctors, schools, hoteliers and charities to turn away gay people - all in the name of "freedom of religion".
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