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Big Boris: Doublespeaking on the London buses.

Andrea Williams comments on the case of Core Issues Trust and their banned bus advert. In another spectacular display of the establishment capitulating to the politically correct we see Mrs Justice Lang expressly refusing to let Core Issues Trust win. It’s a bad judgment and a bad day for free speech. After all no-one seems ...

13 March 2013   Articles

Christian faces expulsion from Greens

A Green Party Councillor could face expulsion from the Green Group of councillors after being the only elected member of the Brighton and Hove City Council to vote against a motion in support of the Government’s plans to legalise same-sex ‘marriages.’ Hollingdean and Stanmer Councillor, Christina Summers, voted against the Government’s proposals to introduce same ...

27 July 2012   Articles

Calls for revision of ‘unworkable’ equalities legislation

A ComRes survey published today suggests that the case of Owen and Eunice Johns (the Christian couple seeking to provide foster care in Derby) has prompted a significant shift in public opinion. The poll also highlights considerable public dissatisfaction with the current ‘Equalities’ framework and has prompted calls for urgent review and revision of the ...

8 April 2011   Articles

Analysis of the Johns ruling and its effects

There has been huge media interest regarding the Johns ruling by the High Court. There has also been some confusion over the nature and implications of the ruling. Application to Foster The Johns applied to Derby City Council in 2007 to foster a child but the Council withdrew their application because they objected to the ...

4 March 2011   Articles

Judgment suggests Christian beliefs are harmful to children

In a landmark judgment, which will have a serious impact on the future of fostering and adoption in the UK, the High Court has suggested that Christians with traditional views on sexual ethics are unsuitable as foster carers, and that homosexual ‘rights’ trump freedom of conscience in the UK. The Judges stated that Christian beliefs ...

28 February 2011   Articles

Judgment ‘raises fundamental questions about church and state’

Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir -Ali is the former Bishop of Rochester and is now President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. Lord Justice Laws’s judgment on the Gary McFarlane case in the Court of Appeal – that legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious ground cannot be ...

30 May 2010   Articles
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