Only in the dystopian, through the looking glass world of King Tony could Ruth Kelly ever be Minister for Equality. Here she is, Blair's Bigot, doing the Lords work for the fundamentalists opposing the right of gay couples to adopt. The warmth and humanity just shines out of her.

It's great to see the faithful in their true colours. The Catholic's position is, and I'm paraphrasing slightly "we'd rather throw children out on the streets than see them housed with loving families who might not share our mean-spirited little worldview". The Anglicans have jumped in, with Rowan Williams giving his full support; warning that, and again I'm paraphrasing slightly "the Government should not create conditions where bigots feel their prejudices have been ignored or sacrificed".

A delicious exposure of the farce of 'pick and mix' Christianity. If your 'good' book hates gays; if the head of your church hates gays; where does that leave you? It's like joining the BNP and saying you're not a racist.

BNP Ballerina

The BNP have 3,000 members - most of whom conform to the traditional knuckle dragging stereotype; with an inner core of Little Englanders and power fetishists. They polled about 0.7% of the vote in the last election. Making them, on any measure, irrelevant.

They would slip quietly into obscurity if it were not for the tireless efforts of organisations like the Socialist Workers Party, Unite Against Fascism, and of course New Labour. The BNP owes them a great debt of gratitude.

New Labour love the BNP because they can use them to scare the faithful into line "if you think we're illiberal just look at these guys!". SWP and UAF just need to have a reason to exist.

The latest publicity drive is the ludicrous campaign against 'BNP Ballerina' Simone Clarke. Now I don't doubt Simone Clarke is a thoroughly unpleasant woman - an airhead, with a mean streak. But the notion of calling for her sacking is utter nonsense.

Clarke has done nothing illegal, she has merely joined a political party, and expressed a point of view. Having a toxic personality is not a crime. Denying someone employment because of their beliefs is deeply illiberal, it's the sort of thing you'd expect in, er, Nazi Germany.....

Tobias Jones got a healthy spanking from Guardian readers for his ludicrous little rant accusing secularists of fundamentalism. My own personal criticism is that he's intellectually lazy, using atheism and secularism interchangeably.

Secularists believe church and state should be separate. That decisions should be made based on reason, not the interpretation of a 2,000 year old novel. To varying degrees of intensity, secularists believe religion is bad. This is a defensible position which can be debated - putting argument and counter-argument for the benefits and harm religion has brought to humanity.

For a secularist the existence of God should be fairly inconsequential. Don't teach children fairy tales, and call it science. Don't expect the majority of us to live by the rules of some 2,000 year old novel. Don't encourage the more dim-witted of your flock that flying aeroplanes into buildings is a fast-track to paradise. Apart from that, if you want to believe in God, Father Christmas, or the Tooth Fairy it's entirely up to you.

Conversely, we have the atheists (currently championed by the depressingly pompous Richard Dawkins), trying to disprove the existence of God. If there is a more pointless exercise, I've yet to encounter it. Belief in God is a faith based position which, by definition cannot be proved or disproved. Dawkins, trapped by the ego of his intellect, remains forever stalled in a philosophical cul-de-sac. In fact, the only people dafter than Dawkins are those trying to argue against him, and 'prove' God exists.