/blogentry/34789 time*treat's Blog: Climate change belief given same legal status as religion en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator /blogentry/34789#c42757 /blogentry/34789#c42757 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:49:43 GMT Rick G Praise the Lord! For He is Green...

]]> Rick G /blogentry/34789#c42752 /blogentry/34789#c42752 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:07:46 GMT konane Lawyers win every time.

]]> konane /blogentry/34789 /blogentry/34789 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:25:24 GMT time*treat Being entitled to a job provided by someone else seems to be a religion, too. Would anyone believe that just over 100 years ago, the U.K. was the nation whose empire the sun never set on?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6494213/Climate-change-belief-given-same-legal-status-as-religion.html

An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations .

The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel.

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