Gordon Brown's holy laws.

You claimed in a previous thread that these laws were made by Brown for religious reasons and cited that witness statement in the video as evidence in support of your claim. It supports no such contention, of course. It may be that his views are conditioned by religion, but the video does not support that contention.

My views are driven by what society as a whole needs rather than having a religious source. I abhor the influence of religion in our laws and would like to get rid of religious representatives from the House of Lords as well as disestablishing the Church of England and banning the indoctrination (or other involvement) of children into any religion before the age of eighteen.

I expect most younger atheists to be more liberal on cannabis than I am but I guess they want personal freedom more than they want society to prosper.

Come on guys, don't leave me hanging.

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All of the TSR closet racists and islam-haters in one tagging, lmao

Ah thanks Good bloke.



Yes and we discovered quite quickly that you don't give the same benefit of the doubt when Islam is mentioned.



We had those freedoms until US Puritans got their way, our drug laws have been driven by religion and racism from foreign lands. Since then prohibition has led to increased drug use, addiction, drug deaths, crime......, how do you think we would be worse off now had we had the balls to tell those foreigners to bugger off and kept the freedom to use drugs without threat of criminal prosecution?

We learned no such thing.

Hmm. The Puritans were British and we managed to largely get rid of them to America in the seventeenth century, where they add to a heady broth of religious nuttery and guns. How did they influence UK law-making on drugs?

And how is the prohibition of drug use racist?

It's very easy to claim that the prohibition of illegal drug supply is the cause of addiction but rather more difficult to prove it.

What is it exactly that you want?

What is it exactly that you want?

Get rid of these holy laws of course, I reckon this ones easily achievable, even if you only put in half the effort you do to raise awareness of the dangers Islam whilst achieving bugger all.

D'aww good for you, having your own little crusade. You go girlfriend!

He doesn't want to be left hanging. He wants to be cut down.

Ah, is that your game, cutting people down, does it make you feel big, how old are you again?

They keep telling us they're fighting for our freedom, but when you actually need them they're nowhere to been seen.

All of the TSR closet racists and islam-haters in one tagging, lmao

It's the weekend. Some of us have lives.

It is wrong for people in positions of power to allow personal preferences of any kind to cloud the objective judgement needed for really effective decision making.
Luckily, in the UK the PM doesn not pass laws on his own. It requires a majority in parliamant so any new statute (or lack of) will not be due to the religious leanings of the PM, but a variety of factors. The main reason why cannabis is still a controlled drug is that the majority of politicians (of all stripes) still view deregulation as a vote loser. That will change, and the personal beliefs of the PM will not prevent its decriminalisation when the tide finally turns.

They are not "Brown's holy laws". They are laws that Brown's religous position favours. Many others also favour them for completely different reasons.

And I'm not fighting for anyone's freedom. People are free to do what they like. I'm just pointing out their mistakes.