This is true for most of USA too. While you probably won't get jailed for saying such, there are just as ridiculous laws and customs based on Christianity, especially compared to other more saner countries. Especially about gay marriage and abortion.
In the USA you have the 2nd amendment. If a mob of religious asshats came to me because I choose to say on FB I am a atheist, which is a option on FB under religious choice, I would exercise the 2nd amendment until I ran out of targets. And I am also pro-choice and for gay MARRIAGE. This is also how we do things in the USA, in the south, in Georgia.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones