by Muriel Fraser One of the greatest dangers to secularism is posed by religious law. This comes in many flavours: Sharia, Halakha, Hindu Law – and Canon Law, in both its Catholic and Anglican variants. None of this religious law has to be officially enforced in order to seep out into society. Its influence is often indirect, as when clerics of all kinds try to nudge secular laws in the direction of their own brand of religious law (for instance, by reducing abortion time limits).