Britian's Labour government is planning a new attack to try to silence Christian efforts to save homosexuals. The Starmer regime is considering a new law on so called conversion therapy.
‘Conversion therapy’ is the phrase LGBTQ militants use to try to demonise measure intended to help homosexuals who want to go straight. It includes repentance as well as preaching, prayer, pastoral care and even parenting that fails to endorse liberal theology.
So biblically faithful preaching, prayer, pastoral care and parenting are all comin under attack.
The Christian Institute has instructed solicitors in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland to prepare the ground for a potential judicial review of any new laws on ‘conversion therapy’ that restrict religious freedom.
This is based on legal advice received from one of the UK’s leading human rights KCs warning that an indiscriminate ban could criminalise the ordinary work of churches. This would put the UK in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights and open the Government to legal challenge in the courts.
The Institute has won both its previous judicial reviews against UK governments. The first, in 2007, resulted in a partial strike down of the Northern Ireland Sexual Orientation Regulations. The second, in 2016, resulted in the repeal of the Scottish Government’s unlawful ‘Named Person’ scheme.
Aidan O’Neill KC has also provided two legal opinions for the Institute.
In the first in December 2022 he warned that the Scottish Government’s extreme ‘conversion therapy’ proposals are “beyond the powers of the Scottish Parliament to legislate”. He explained that the “fundamentally illiberal” proposals also breach Holyrood’s competence as set out in the Scotland Act of 1998 as they contain measures which change UK equality and discrimination law which is not devolved to Holyrood.
Liberals always scream about "choice", but look how they react when people make choices they don't like!