Catholic or Protestant?

[nancylebov]

http://redbird.livejournal.com/802605.html?nc=1

It's like the forms in Northern Ireland that would ask, not about actual religion/ethnicity [2] but whether the person would "be perceived as" Catholic or Protestant. When Rysmiel and papersky told me about those, I said I would need a "don't know" box, and they both confidently told me that, in that context, I would be perceived as Protestant.

rysmiel? papersky? Anyone else familiar with Northern Ireland who knows me?

Would I be perceived as Catholic or Protestant? If it will go into words, why?

Aside from being intrigued by the whole thing, I've gotta know whether I should be outraged by _The Da Vinci Code_.

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Um. I'm from Northern Ireland and have never heard of such forms: there used to be forms that would ask for religion, but they were banned as people would use the results to discriminate.

If they've gone on to ask for perceived religion/ethnicity, then that's a seriously backwards step, I'd say.