UK post homosexual marriage - religious freedoms lost
Since marriage was redefined to include same-sex couples in the UK in 2014, religious freedom has been dramatically eroded, particularly for Christians. At the CLC they deal with 200 case inquiries every year, involving scenarios you’d expect to hear from a Communist dictatorship, rather than 21st century Great Britain.
The Centre has provided legal representation to Christian teachers who lost their jobs for refusing to teach students about “same-sex marriage”, magistrates removed from the bench for expressing their belief that children do best with a mother and a father, social workers forced to resign because they refused to place children with same-sex couples, counsellors who lost their jobs for trying to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction, registrars who’d lost their jobs because they refused to preside over same-sex “marriages”, doctors threatened with the removal of their medical licences if they questioned gender-transition – the list goes on and on.
Recently Andrea represented Felix Ngole, a university student removed from his Social Work course for expressing his belief on his own Facebook page that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that children need a mother and a father.
Authorities at Sheffield University stated that Ngole was unfit to be a social worker as he would unfairly discriminate.
“What’s so shocking about this particular case is that he was a university student and he was removed from his course for expressing that view,” Andrea says.
“If you’re a social worker you have to deny your conscience. You either don’t end up working in fostering or adoption, or you leave your faith at the door. If you speak out, you are liable to the consequences.”
