The relation between conventional communities of religious belief and the modern state shows no sign of getting any less complicated. On one side, those who hold certain convictions on (predominantly) gender- and sexuality-related questions see themselves as targets of discrimination or worse, locked out of various professions and regarded as deeply suspect if they put themselves forward for public office. See the controversy over Tim Farron's supposed views on homosexuality or the conservative Catholic affiliations of Ruth Kelly when she held various ministerial posts in Labour governments of the 2000s.
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