And so it begins. No longer able to bully, religion plays the victim card. Opinion writers from the religiously conservative right are whinnying the victimhood of their faith. The former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron pops up in at least two publications: Should our commitment to diversity, he whimpers in The Spectator, not extend to people with faith?

For more than a thousand years, faith has been bossing other people around, imprisoning them, burning them at the stake or cutting their heads off over such matters as sexuality, adultery, abortion, marriage, divorce, school curriculums, the essentially spherical nature of our planet, and more recently embryology and the right to die. But hey, whats this? Faith, forced at last into minority status, finds it no longer

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In politics, there's no such thing as private faith - The Times