Labour’s latest equality law will deprive Christians of the right of free speech, the Church of England has warned.
Yes, let them try that with the Islamists. Hee hee.
Yes, let them try that with the Islamists. Hee hee.
Become Homo and save the Planet from Human Procreation.
Let’s see if the Church of England has the resolve of Sir Thomas More.
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The gay activists ask us to ‘stay out of their bedrooms’. I only wish they would just KEEP it in the bedroom!!
The preservation of religious freedom, including the right to manifest religious belief in all its diversity, remains a cornerstone of an open, liberal and tolerant society, the Archbishops’ Council has stated in its response to proposals for a Single Equality Bill.
“We have been concerned at what has seemed in some recent debates to be a trend towards regarding religion and belief as deserving of a lesser priority in discrimination legislation than the other strands where the law seeks to bring protection,” the Council says in its response to Department for Communities and Local Government’s discrimination law review.
A Framework for Fairness, the DCLG’s consultation paper, says relatively little about the difficult and crucial area of conflicting rights and how a proper balance should be struck, the response notes. “The argument appears to be that, because religion and belief is susceptible of personal choice in a way that is not the same in relation to other strands, that means that religion and belief should be subordinate to those other strands when they come into conflict. We think that this is a false analysis,” the Council says.
“Nor,” says the Council, “is religious equality achieved by the elimination of expressions of religious belief in public institutions such as schools or local authorities. This does not amount to, or achieve, equal respect for different religious groups and those of no religion; rather it amounts to an enforced secularism that fails to respect religious belief at all.”
The response notes that the Church of England has been consistent in its support for the use of the law to combat the manifestations of prejudice and to promote equality and fairness since the introduction of the first anti-discrimination legislation more than forty years ago. It includes a detailed commentary on the consultation document and can be read in full via the link above.
Gonna be interesting to see how many Episcopals breakaway and align with the Anglicans over these issues.
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Don't think that can't happen, it already has in our Mainstream Protestant Churches who have embrassed homosexuality so completely that they ordain open homosexuals who will never condemn their own lifestyle.
The rest believe that "Christ loves us all" and an alternative lifestyle is NOT SIN (they were already performing marriages for couples who have been shacking up and never condemned that lifestyle).
Centuries ago the British government outlawed the practice of Catholicism. Now, they’re essentially outlawing Christianity one cut at a time.
Color me unsurprised by this development.
Please note that this same Labour government won’t apply this same speech code law to the Islamic Imams preaching death to homosexuals.
Not a single post recognizing that the Church of England and the desire for separation of church and state were a primary reason why the U.S. Declaration of Independence was written and implemented.