"Even presuming your ten million is correct, within a population of 60 million it is a minority"
According to sources on the net the percentage of regular church goers is somewhere between 14 and 2o % of the Uk population. That equates to at least 8.5 million people. In a population of 60 million people that isn’t a minority in my book (Unless we’re talking about the literal meaning of the word.)
Literal or otherwise by any sensible interpretation would say 20% is a minority
"People can believe in any mythical superstition they wish – however they do not have any rights to impose their beliefs on others who do not share those beliefs."
Who is suggesting that they do? My point was that racing should reconsider the idea of racing on a prominent religious date. That hardly equates to having anything imposed on racing by anyone else.
Of course it does by not doing something because it coincides with a religious festival is effectively imposing the so called importance of that festival on those who do not believe in it.
It’s simple – race on Good Friday and if Christians do not want to go racing nobody is forcing them – they have a choice.
By banning racing on Good Friday those who do not believe in the Christian myth are not being given the choice to go racing.
Ergo the beliefs of the 20% minority are being imposed on the 80% majority.