Conversations

Urgent: New Threat to Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech
3rd October 2007
Headlines

• New offence against incitement to homophobic hatred is likely to be put before Parliament on Monday 8th October.

URGENT ACTION REQUIRED ON BILL CURRENTLY IN PARLIAMENT
BILL SEEKS TO USURP BIBLICAL MODEL FOR FAMILY
HUMANITY CHALLENGED AT ITS VERY CORE BY CREATION OF ‘NEW SPECIES’
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling” Psalm 68:5

NEWS UPDATE

-         UK Litigation Academy
-         Tooks Chambers Debate – 30 May 2007 6.30pm -Are lesbian and gay rights incompatible with freedom of religious expression?

The Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship has today published Guidance on the Sexual Orientation Regulations that come in to force 30th April 2007. Christians object to these Regulations because they will force them to become involved in promoting or facilitating homosexual lifestyles contrary to the practice and teaching of the Church down the centuries. Christians do not seek to refuse homosexuals access to restaurants and hospital lists and the whole myriad of basic goods and services to which they are entitled as individuals. 

UPDATE ON EVENTS, KEY ISSUES AND CASES

10th April 2007

"But the Angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for He has risen...! He is going before you to Galilee..." Matthew Ch 28 v 5-7

19th March 2007
URGENT! TONIGHT, LAST SOR VOTE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. Wednesday, last sor vote (and prayer vigil) in house of lords


** WHERE WERE CHRISTIANS WHEN THE ABORTION ACT WAS PASSED IN 1967? SINCE THEN 7 MILLION UNBORN CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ABORTED

16th March 2007

** what the government say: these regulations are the “moral and appropriate thing to do” (david Hanson, government minister, and 17TH january 2007)

what the regulations say: “the fact that one of the persons is a [homosexual] civil partner while the other is married shall not be treated as a material difference” Regulation 3(4).

Government to rush SORs through House of Commons

14th March 2007
** The Joint Committee on Human Rights said that the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) should make it illegal for Christian schools to teach that homosexuality is wrong.