Clause 13
Equality Bill
5:45 pm
John Mason (Glasgow East, Scottish National Party)
I suppose that I have a problem with the phrase, “seek to impose.” I do not think that Mrs. Petrie was seeking to impose anything. She was offering another skill that she had. A similar example would be her offering some extra bit of care to the patient—if she was an expert in massage, for example. However, I would have thought that offering is slightly different from seeking to impose.
The idea that prayer is only the job of a priest takes us down an interesting route as far as religion is concerned. With regard to my background, we did not believe in priests as such, in that we thought that all believers were of equal value and could do all of those things. I would not accept something contrary to that.