Submitted by Samuel Cornish on Tuesday 4th November 2025
Published on Friday 12th December 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Friday 12th June 2026
Current Signatures: 83
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Ensure ~ Equal ~ Equality Act ~ Equality Act 2010 ~ Identity ~ Illegal ~ Inciting ~ Law ~ Protecting ~ Racing ~ Religious ~ Remove ~ status ~ The State ~ Violence
Remove religion and belief from the Equality Act 2010
Remove religion from the Equality Act. Religion consists of fundamental beliefs. Fundamental beliefs should not be protected under law from discrimination because we think this hinders the rights of others. We think many religious texts encourage illegal behaviours, such as inciting violence.
We think religion and belief are personal choices, not inherent, uncontrollable traits like race or sex. Protecting them in equality law grants ideas the same status as identity. The state should stay neutral, treating all views equally without protecting any ideology from discrimination under law. Removing religion and belief would ensure equality law focuses on people, not opinions.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
216.73.216.219 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:31:01 +0100
