The Island's proposed Equality Bill could be detrimental to Manx society as we know it, according to a local advocate and Human Rights specialist.
Currently, it would ban discrimination on the grounds of specified characteristics including disability, gender, and sexual orientation.
But Paul Beckett says there are a number of issues with it.
According to him, using the UK's law as a template would be detrimental to the Island's identity:
Chief Minister Allan Bell has described the bill as ‘one of the most important pieces of social legislation to be progressed in the Isle of Man in recent times.'Clip 1
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