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Oh, but it isn't. Not if you've read some of the endless "uptight, God-loving, sex-hating USA" threads we've had in the past. After all, we over here got our triumphalist religion from the same sources as you and the British: the Calvinists and other somewhat intolerant groups. (In fact, ours began in Europe, and got to these shores. I still think the native Americans of that place and time should have set up a customs office and sent them back.) It's just that the presence of religiously conservative people in Europe is something nobody seems to like to discuss nowadays. At least, in Europe. Sort of like that uncle we all have who is barking mad and insists on wearing a pyramid on his head to keep out the government.
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Also, Partij van de Arbeid = "Liberal Party"? I guess that makes sense with the US connotations of the term Liberal, but...y'know...no.
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Please: I'm slightly more sophisticated than to confuse some other nation's Liberal Party with notions of American "liberalism." I simply noted it because they're in office, they're making the move, and that's their name. If their name had been The Party of Large Green Things That Go Gubba-Gubba, I would still have listed it.
I have to wonder how this will affect the religious parties in their ruling coalition. Probably not very, since an attempt to enforce the law hasn't been tried in so long, and being part of the ruling elite is ever-so-much-more-fun than grousing from the sidelines. Even if it's only as a minority member of that coalition.