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Report warns of ‘£1bn’ equality cost to employers

Sam Wylie — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:52:04 +0000

Employers are being forced to spend around £1 billion complying with equality legislation, a report has suggested. The report comes with a warning that current equality legislation is “in pursuit of a false utopia of absolute equality for all”. The previous Government’s controversial Equality Act, which came into force last year, faced widespread criticism. Burden [...]

Equality Act comes into force today

Sam Wylie — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:15:50 +0000

The Equality Act comes into force today. When it was a Bill passing through Parliament it was used by the previous Labour Government in a failed bid to squeeze church employment freedom. The Act’s provision for an ‘equality duty’ – which could threaten the religious liberty of Christians – will not come into force until [...]

Coalition eases up on onerous equality duty

Mike Judge — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:30:26 +0000

Public bodies like the police and schools will not be forced to meet centralised targets for homosexual, transsexual and religious equality, the Government says. Instead, public sector organisations will be allowed to decide for themselves how best to implement the new equality duty rushed into law by the previous Government. The Government Equalities Office says [...]

Harman’s Equality Bill passes in Parliament

Sam Wylie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:08:29 +0000

The Equality Bill was passed in Parliament on Tuesday, with the Government forced to accept defeat over church employment freedom. However, other measures in the Bill – championed by Equality Minister Harriet Harman – may interfere with the religious liberty of Christians. The Tories and the Lib Dems welcomed the Bill. Labour vowed that the [...]

Equality Bill passes in House of Lords

Mike Judge — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:16:00 +0000

The Government’s controversial and far-reaching Equality Bill passed its remaining stages in the Lords this week while concerns about its impact on religious liberty persist. The Government tidied up Lord Alli’s amendments that allow civil partnership registrations to be held in churches. But an amendment aimed at rescuing faith-based adoption agencies from being closed down [...]

Equality quango: vegans protected by Harman’s Bill

Sam Wylie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:54 +0000

Vegans, Rastafarians and atheists will be protected from discrimination under the Equality Bill, equality bureaucrats claim. Philosophical beliefs such as Humanism will also be covered according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The Equality Bill has been spearheaded through Parliament by Harriet Harman, the Labour Minister for Women and Equality. The Bill has [...]

Clergy may face court over civil partnerships

Mike Judge — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:31:16 +0000

Senior church leaders and politicians fear that clergy might be taken to court if they refuse to allow homosexual civil partnership registrations to take place in church. The warning comes after the House of Lords voted to back an amendment to the Equality Bill that allows, but does not compel, churches to host civil partnership [...]

Lords: Christians pushed to bottom of equality pile

Sam Wylie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:33:32 +0000

Christians are being pushed to the sidelines of public life because Labour has put homosexual ‘equality’ before religious liberty, the House of Lords has heard. Addressing the issue of Roman Catholic adoption agencies, Peers heard they did exceptional work but that in the face of the Government’s homosexual rights legislation they had been forced to [...]

Equality quango revives 80s ‘loony Left’ policies

Sam Wylie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:32:33 +0000

The “startling” claim last week that school skirts may break equality rules shows that the ‘loony Left’ policies of the 1980s have been embedded at the powerful new Equality Commission, a columnist has warned. Writing in the Daily Mail, Leo McKinstry ripped into a raft of measures unveiled by the Equality and Human Rights Commission [...]

Pope highlighted religious liberty threat, say critics

Sam Wylie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:12:50 +0000

Commentators have spoken out in support of the Pope’s warning that religious liberty in Britain is being threatened by ‘equality’ legislation. The Government’s Equality Bill in particular has come under fierce attack from critics who warn about the threat it could pose. Yesterday the Government confirmed it will not overturn the House of Lords votes [...]

Harman: Lords vote on Equality Bill will stand

Matt Jess — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:10:20 +0000

Harriet Harman has indicated that she will not try to overturn the House of Lords votes on the Equality Bill which preserved religious groups’ employment freedoms. Peers voted on 25 January to keep the current law unchanged, but it was thought the Government might try to overturn the Lords’ decision in the Commons. However, Miss [...]

Pope warns ‘equality’ laws limit UK religious freedom

Roger Jordan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:14:07 +0000

The Pope has criticised Britain’s equality legislation, warning that it is unjustly limiting the nation’s religious freedom. Pope Benedict XVI also warned that the equality legislation “violates natural law” in a message to the Roman Catholic Bishops of England and Wales. The Pontiff’s comments have been seen as an implicit attack on Harriet Harman’s Equality [...]

Lords defeat Govt over church staff

Mike Judge — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:41:34 +0000

The Government has lost in the House of Lords over its attempt in the Equality Bill to alter the law on who churches and other faith-based groups can employ. Peers voted 216 to 178 in favour of Lady O’Cathain’s amendment to keep the current law unchanged. Then in an extraordinary move the Government broke with [...]

Bishops sound alarm over the Equality Bill

Roger Jordan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:18:15 +0000

Three Anglican Bishops have warned that churches could find themselves “more vulnerable” to legal challenges if the Equality Bill becomes law. The statement issued by the Bishops of Winchester, Exeter and Chester comes ahead of a House of Lords debate on the Bill later today which will focus on employment exemptions for churches. Under the [...]

RC bishops: Govt’s Equality Bill compromise is no good

Matt Jess — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:18:34 +0000

The threat religious organisations face from the Equality Bill has not been reduced by the Government changing the wording, say the Roman Catholic bishops of England and Wales. The bishops have criticised the Government’s refusal to listen to their concerns, and say the compromise it has offered does not do enough to protect the “moral [...]

Bishop: ‘Equality’ may push Christians out of public jobs

Roger Jordan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:56:25 +0000

Christians who work in the public sector risk being squeezed out of their jobs because of a wrong use of equality and diversity laws, a senior Anglican Bishop has said. During a House of Lords debate Bishop Michael Scott-Joynt said that some people view Christianity as “abnormal” and think that believers should keep their faith [...]

Equality Bill will harm churches, says lawyer

Mike Judge — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:26:34 +0000

A leading employment lawyer says Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill could make it unlawful for a church to require its minister to live according to the Bible’s teaching on sexual behaviour. Listen to a BBC Radio 4 interview Dr Dan Boucher of CARE is interviewed on the Today Programme. John Bowers QC, an expert on employment [...]

Equality Bill could increase squeeze on UK Christians

Sam Wylie — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:35:10 +0000

The upcoming Equality Bill could add to the pressure on Christians’ religious liberty, according to an English Bishop. The Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, who was until September the Bishop of Rochester, says the new Equality Bill must not force Christians to act against their consciences. Dr Nazir-Ali highlighted particular cases of Christians who have [...]

Equality Bill could drive faith from ‘public sphere’

Roger Jordan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:18:52 +0000

The Equality Bill is an attempt to “drive religion from the public sphere” which will lead to Christian employees becoming increasingly isolated, according to media commentators. George Pitcher, writing in The Daily Telegraph yesterday, warned that the Bill was being used by “parliamentary secularists to drive religion from the public sphere.” He added: “Any issue [...]

Govt admits churches face Equality Bill legal battles

Roger Jordan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:20:23 +0000

Churches should be “lining up” lawyers to defend themselves against secular legal challenges under the Equality Bill, a Government equalities minister has admitted. Michael Foster MP, a minister in Harriet Harman’s Equalities Office, was asked whether the Bill would lead to legal action between churches and atheists. He said both sides “need to be lining [...]

‘Dangerous’ court ruling in Jewish school case

Matt Jess — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:21:54 +0000

The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has told an Orthodox Jewish school that its criteria for orthodoxy are unlawful, prompting fears about the state intruding into definitions of faith. The case involved a boy whose application to attend JFS, a Jewish secondary school, was turned down on the grounds that he didn’t meet the criteria because [...]

New report: Christians are sidelined by equality laws

Mike Judge — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:22:42 +0000

Christians are being marginalised by a raft of equality and diversity laws which leave them the first to be punished and the last to be protected, a new Christian Institute report says. Download the report in full The report, published today, follows comments from the Archbishop of Canterbury at the weekend that the Government treats [...]

EU accused of meddling as Equality Bill debated

Roger Jordan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:52:57 +0000

An amendment to the Equality Bill to protect the religious liberty of churches was voted down in the House of Commons last night amid accusations of EU interference. The proposed amendment, tabled by Labour MP David Drew, would have safeguarded the right of religious organisations to restrict their posts to people whose conduct is consistent [...]

Coalition wants no religious safeguards in Equality Bill

Matt Jess — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:09:32 +0000

A coalition of secular campaigners, gay rights activists, transgender organisations, trade unions and “progressive faith” groups has united to remove all religious liberty safeguards from the Equality Bill. Calling itself the Cutting Edge Consortium (CEC), the group includes the British Humanist Association, the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, the Muslim Women’s Network, Liberal Judaism, Ekklesia, [...]

Queen’s Speech: Equality Bill, home ed and sex ed

Sam Wylie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:40:45 +0000

The controversial Equality Bill and a new schools Bill with divisive plans for sex education and home schooling formed part of yesterday’s Queen’s Speech. The speech, which is prepared by the Government and delivered by the Queen, sets out the legislative agenda for the next session of Parliament. Equality Bill In the speech it was [...]

Equality law set to give Scientologists tax break

Sam Wylie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:44:26 +0000

The Church of Scientology will be given council tax breaks equivalent to the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church if Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill is made law, it has been claimed. Scientologists have a number of buildings in the UK as well as chaplain’s houses and critics argue that both would be given [...]

Bosses urged to put away biscuits during Ramadan

Jen Davis — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:03:22 +0000

Employers have been advised to keep biscuits out of meetings and rearrange working hours during the Muslim festival of Ramadan, which began this weekend. The suggestions came from members of the Employers Forum on Belief (EFB) in an article for Personnel Today. The EFB says public bodies in particular should be studying religious practices in [...]

Faith charity funding ban may be scrapped

Jen Davis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:18:11 +0000

Plans to exclude Christian charities from receiving public funding unless they promise not to evangelise may be scrapped. A humanist organisation says the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) is to drop plans for a new Charter for Excellence for faith groups seeking public funding. Referring to the charter earlier this year, Communities Secretary [...]

Equality Bill may be a vote loser, says Labour minister

Jen Davis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:05 +0000

A Cabinet Minister has suggested that the unpopular Equality Bill could damage Labour’s election chances. The Party must consider what will be “popular and successful” in taking the Bill forward, Communities Minister John Denham had planned to warn last night. In the event he dropped the reference from his speech, but still said that new [...]

Officials tell activist group Canterbury is ‘gay enough’

Jen Davis — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:48:50 +0000

Claims by a ‘gay rights’ group that Canterbury City Council was failing to support the area’s gay community have been exposed as groundless. The Pride in Canterbury group made the accusations after Canterbury City Council decided not to back a plan to promote gay plays in the local theatre. The group claimed at the time: [...]

Equality Bill to ‘end council efficiencies’

Jane Leung — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:51:54 +0000

Money-saving efficiencies of local councils can be ‘discriminatory’ and will be challenged when the Equality Bill comes into force, trade union activists have said. Speaking at Unison’s national conference, activists say they will use equality legislation to combat local council savings. They claim that outsourcing and shared-services deals are seen as areas of particular concern [...]

Insurance brokers join in Equality Bill concern

Jen Davis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:07:33 +0000

Insurance brokers are asking for exemptions in the Equality Bill so firms can maintain customer age-restrictions. The Bill will make new age-specific insurance policies unlawful but existing policies will be unaffected. However, insurers say their businesses will be adversely affected and argue that fairness can be achieved in other ways. They are the latest businessmen [...]

Equality Bill burden worries small shops

Jen Davis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:46:24 +0000

The Equality Bill will heap more costs and bureaucracy on small stores, the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has warned MPs. It said new measures in the Bill could see small shops facing the “distressing prospect” of multiple employment tribunals under new rules for dealing with employee grievances. Carrying out the proposed gender pay audits [...]

Harman ‘exaggerated’ Equality Bill statistics

Jen Davis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:36 +0000

Equalities Minister Harriet Harman has been accused of exaggerating the pay gap between men and women. Miss Harman has used the figure to justify unpopular measures contained in her Equality Bill. But according to Sir Michael Scholar, the head of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Miss Harman has put the size of the divide at [...]

Government seeks views on latest ‘equality’ plans

Jen Davis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:25:21 +0000

The Government is beginning a consultation on proposals in the Equality Bill which could force public bodies to promote ‘gay rights’. It wants to bring in a new Equality Duty requiring bodies like schools, local councils and hospitals to ‘promote equality’ on grounds including sexual orientation and transsexualism. As part of the requirement to “drive [...]

MPs told Equality Bill must not chill religion

Jen Davis — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:08:03 +0000

The Equality Bill could backfire by having a ‘chilling effect’ on the religious groups it claims to protect, MPs are being warned. The Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church will each give evidence on the Bill to a House of Commons committee tomorrow. The Roman Catholic Church plans to tell MPs that although [...]

Nurses fear Equality Bill may squeeze healthcare

Jane Leung — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:22:06 +0000

Hospitals may have to lay off healthcare staff because of the extra costs of implementing the Equality Bill, says the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Although the RCN commends the majority of the Bill, it has raised concerns about the heavy cost burdens and added bureaucracy. The RCN has warned that patient care could suffer [...]

Equality Bill should shut faith schools say atheists

Jane Leung — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:44:12 +0000

Faith schools should have their religious ethos undermined by the Equality Bill, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has said. The BHA was responding to a letter published in the Times newspaper yesterday, which claimed that faith schools were ‘discriminatory’. The BHA said in terms of the Equality Bill they would be working to “pressure Parliament [...]

Government to force gay youth workers on church

Mike Judge — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:28:43 +0000

The Government says its new Equality Bill will force churches to accept practising homosexuals or transsexuals in youth worker posts and other similar roles. Equalities minister Maria Eagle said religious believers should push ‘gay rights’ in their communities, but in the meantime the state would do it. Should the church be forced to employ homosexual [...]

‘Just wait until we’ve got the Equality Bill’

Jen Davis — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:33:52 +0000

Councils will no longer be able to refuse the demands of ‘gay rights’ groups to promote homosexual culture in their towns if the Equality Bill is passed, activists have claimed. Theo Grzegorczyk, a campaigner for the Equality Bill and adviser to openly gay peer Lord Waheed Alli, made the claim after a group in Canterbury [...]

‘Bulldoze’ Equality Bill says columnist

Jane Leung — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:56:41 +0000

The Equality Bill is a vast and expensive bureaucratic maze which should be scrapped, says a Sunday Times columnist. Harriet Harman’s new Bill would burden public bodies with “astonishingly heavy and expensive obligations” if the Bill became law, wrote Minette Marrin in the Sunday Times. She said in a time of financial crisis supporters of [...]

Equality Bill: unworkable gobbledegook, say MPs

Jane Leung — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:42:54 +0000

The controversial and costly Equality Bill was passed by MPs at Second Reading yesterday, despite criticism describing it as “unworkable”, “misleading” and “gobbledegook”. Even though religion is a protected ground in the Equality Bill, Harriet Harman, equalities minister, failed to mention it on numerous occasions as she listed groups that will be protected by the [...]

C of E Newspaper: anti- Christian bias is on rise

Mike Judge — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:19:15 +0000

A time of anti-Christian persecution is at hand and the Equality Bill could make matters far worse, says the Church of England Newspaper. The newspaper, one of the oldest in the world dating back to 1828, is concerned about the growing punishment of Christians who publicly criticise homosexual conduct. “The government had better start building [...]

Religion comes last in equality pecking order

Matt Jess — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:00:19 +0000

Equality laws have created a “pecking order of competing equalities” where religion often loses out, an employment lawyer has said. Although equality laws are supposed to protect religious believers from discrimination, case law has tended to place religion at a disadvantage compared to other protected characteristics, says Adam Fuge in an article for Personnel Today [...]

Equality Bill is about ‘ideological coercion’

Matt Jess — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:40:35 +0000

The Equality Bill is not about fairness or simplicity, but about “ideological coercion”, a prominent political commentator has said. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore compared the Equality Bill to the legislative structure which underpinned the South African apartheid regime. Mr Moore, a former editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, warned his [...]

Equality Bill ‘to entrench gay rights in public life’

Jane Leung — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:07:00 +0000

The Government’s Equality Bill aims to “entrench gay rights in all aspects of public life”, writes a leading gay rights campaigner. Tony Grew’s article posted on PinkNews.co.uk, a gay news website, analysed the wide-ranging advantages of the Bill for the gay community. Mr Grew is the former editor of PinkNews.co.uk but left in March to [...]

Equality Bill: TV bosses fear impact of PC quotas

Matt Jess — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:16:24 +0000

The BBC and Channel 4 fear Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill could interfere with their TV programming by imposing politically correct quotas of actors and presenters. Chiefs at both publicly funded channels are concerned that the requirements of the Bill’s “Public Sector Equality Duty” will infringe their editorial independence. They believe the Duty would force them [...]

Equality Bill ‘will force gay plays into theatres’

Jen Davis — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:24:05 +0000

Homosexual campaigners have boasted about how they hope to use the new Equality Bill to force local councils to back their demands. The claim is made on a site called equalitybill.com, run by a political campaigner who also works for Lord Alli, an openly gay Peer in the House of Lords. Theo Grzegorczyk says that [...]

Harman ‘forgets’ religion is part of the Equality Bill

Jen Davis — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:53:40 +0000

Harriet Harman failed to mention religion as she listed the grounds of discrimination that the Equality Bill aims to address. Her comments came in a written, not spoken, statement, and will fuel concerns that the Bill will leave Christians as the poor relation when it comes to equality laws. In yesterday’s official statement on the [...]

Business bosses’ red tape warning over Equality Bill

Jen Davis — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:30:58 +0000

Business chiefs have warned that the Government’s controversial Equality Bill will bring major red tape and cost burdens at a time of recession. The Government has resisted calls to abandon the Bill, championed by Equalities Minister Harriet Harman, despite the ongoing economic crisis. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), however, say they will oppose the [...]

Equality Bill has first reading in Commons

Mike Judge — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:31:51 +0000

The Government’s costly new Equality Bill has been introduced in Parliament today and MPs will get their first chance to debate it within weeks. Christian groups are concerned that the Bill will reopen many of the discrimination issues which have left Christians bottom of the pile when it comes to ‘equality and diversity’. Business groups [...]

Ministers row over costly Equality Bill

Mike Judge — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:06:52 +0000

An ongoing row between Government ministers Peter Mandelson and Harriet Harman over how far to push equality plans hit the headlines in the financial press today. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is understood to be concerned that aspects of the controversial Equality Bill will heap burdensome regulations on businesses at a time of financial crisis. But [...]

Govt pushes on with ‘costly’ Equality Bill

Jane Leung — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:38:33 +0000

The Government has denied press reports that it will drop the Equality Bill in light of the costly demands it will place on struggling businesses. It was reported yesterday that Business Secretary Peter Mandelson had suggested the Government sacrifice any planned laws that would be expensive for businesses because of the financial crisis. But a [...]

Bid to help business may kill costly ‘equality’ plans

Jen Davis — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:55:16 +0000

The controversial Equality Bill, which could pose a threat to religious freedom, may be dropped by the Government because of the extra costs it would entail for struggling businesses. The Institute of Directors (IoD) says the Government has put the estimated cost to UK businesses of its planned new employment laws at £1 billion per [...]

Secularist MP questions contracts for faith groups

Jen Davis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:57:57 +0000

A Labour MP has implied that faith groups should not be given public money to carry out work for the Government if they only employ staff who share their beliefs. Graham Allen, MP for Nottingham North, is an honorary member of the National Secular Society (NSS) and a known opponent of faith schools. He used [...]

Equalities office under fire over expenditure

Jen Davis — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:36:26 +0000

The department responsible for the controversial Equality Bill has been criticised for spending three-quarters of its outgoings on administration and above-average salaries. The Government Equalities Office spent a total of £5.2 million on rent, wages and administration compared with the £1.8 million it spent directly on programmes. A GEO spokesman defended the figures, arguing that [...]

Employers recoil from planned equality laws

Jen Davis — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:57:12 +0000

Employers are fed up with the amount of legislation they are already expected to contend with and do not support the Government’s Equality Bill, a survey shows. Senior human resources staff are apathetic about the Bill, according to a survey carried out by Pinsent Masons in conjunction with Personnel Today magazine. Politicians say they want [...]

Equality regulator joins push for more gay MPs

Jen Davis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:43:05 +0000

The public body responsible for enforcing equality is throwing its weight behind plans to boost the number of homosexual MPs in Parliament. The Equality and Human Rights Commission wants the issue to be discussed at an upcoming Speaker’s Conference – a rare cross-party meeting of MPs that will be looking at electoral issues. What is [...]

The Queen’s Speech: more equality laws

Mike Judge — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:02:15 +0000

The Government’s legislative programme has been outlined by the Queen in the state opening of Parliament, with a promise to introduce a new Equality Bill. The Government also says it will clamp down on lap dancing clubs and binge drinking. And pro-lifers are concerned about plans to ‘modernise’ the law on assisted suicide. The Equality [...]

Sleeper ministers on ‘gay rights’ watch

Jen Davis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:33:41 +0000

The Government has “sleeper” ministers in various departments monitoring gay rights, Deputy Leader Harriet Harman has said. Another Government Minister, Angela Eagle, promised that “deeper rights” for homosexuals would be included in the Equality Bill, which is expected to place new requirements on public bodies to promote equality. Miss Eagle also said that the decision [...]

Muslim MP calls for religion ‘equality duty’

Jen Davis — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:19:41 +0000

Sadiq Khan MP wants new laws to force public bodies to promote equality between different religions, so that Muslims won’t be treated as ‘second-class citizens’. However, there is concern that such laws may give public bodies an excuse to withdraw from any involvement with religion – particularly the Christian faith. For example, in the news [...]

Make charities promote ‘gay rights’, say unions

Jen Davis — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:44:16 +0000

Private businesses and charities should be forced to promote political correctness including ‘gay rights’, says the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The TUC will debate a motion calling for equality duties – which currently apply to public bodies only – to be extended to cover the private and voluntary sectors. Equality duties place a legal requirement [...]

Force public bodies to promote ‘gay rights’

Jen Davis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:11:34 +0000

Public bodies like schools, the police, and local councils should be forced by law to promote ‘gay rights’, says Britain’s leading homosexual lobby group. Homosexual-only shortlists for Parliamentary candidates should also be permitted, Stonewall says. The comments come in anticipation of the Government’s proposals for a vast, over-arching Equality Bill. The Christian Institute has raised [...]