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BHA: Baroness Warsi gets it wrong again

At a speech to be given during a visit to the Vatican, Baroness Warsi will once again criticise ‘militant secularisation’ as ‘intolerant’ and ‘illiberal’ and call for Christianity and ‘Christian values’ to be reaffirmed in Europe. It is not the first time that the minister has called secularism ‘intolerant and illiberal’. She has also said that religious people contribute more to society than the non religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the ‘Big Society’, and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.