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[Oh_hunnihunni]

Maybe trusting people to behave respectfully towards each other, but legislating to cover negative outcomes would be better than requiring everyone to observe the customs of one increasingly minor faith.

No one is forcing them to do anything - the beauty of living in a free society.  They aren't forced to go to church or prostrate themselves before the cross.

As for minor faith- you may want to double check that as there is around a third of the world population who consider themselves Christian followed by Muslims on about 25%.  Therefore we'll over 50 % of people believe in a singular God.

No one is what?

Good heavens, we have just been through the Christmas period, which begins in September and runs through to January, during which wherever you look you cannot escape the trappings of a once religious festival. The vast majority of our citizens no longer consider themselves Christian, and yet we are legislatively wrapped in this faith based anachronism.
Why not just do away with those laws, and let the few who do consider it important do their own thing? Why make the rest of us put up with the restrictions, the downtime, the waste, the stress, and the commercialism of a festival that is more about profit than faith?


After all, as a priest in a local church pointed out - it aint our birthday!