“Substantive equality and equal impact are not wholly equivalent” as Laycock has pointed out, ¹ quoting “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”. ² Against a contemporary background of radically changing social norms and cultural contexts that differ across the Part II jurisdictions, the truth of that observation as it relates to the impact of law on religion and belief has seldom been more starkly apparent.