OK, that headline and that first sentence is just another example of how the Brits and the Yanks don’t speak the same language.
Either that, or a million Brits are going “WTF”?? as we are.
Some idiot from London who calls herself “Julia” thinks fundamentalist religion is behind that sentence. The same language? We don’t even inhabit the same UNIVERSE!
Oh definitely the London Daily Mail gets away with more editorializing in its headlines. And it has higher moral standards than the NYT — but then again any newspaper does, including toilet paper