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Chilling: Police investigate stay-at-home mom for tweets against transgenderism

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I’ve written often in this space that the trans movement will countenance no dissent in their attempts to remake our culture and implement their agenda in schools, universities, and beyond—but even I was stunned when the Christian Post broke the story of a stay-at-home mother of four being contacted by the police for making comments critical of transgender ideology on Twitter —a story that has received very little attention so far. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, it is important to note, is not a conservative Christian or even a political right -winger—when I emailed her, she noted in her response that she is “a feminist and pro-choice.” Keen-Minshull’s story is positively chilling. She was contacted last month, apparently because Susie Green, the CEO of a UK organization called Mermaids which “supports transgender persons,” had decided to report Keen-Minshull to the police, who then got her details from Twitter. According to the Post, “the officer told her she was a ‘test case’ i

Christian Youth Camp liable for declining booking from homosexual support group

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Christian Youth Camp liable for declining booking from homosexual support group The Victorian Court of Appeal has handed down an important and lengthy judgment on appeal from a decision fining a Christian youth camping organisation, and one of its officers, for declining a booking from a homosexual support group.1 In Christian Youth Camps Limited & Ors v Cobaw Community Health Service Limited & Ors [2014] VSCA 75 (16 April 2014) the court, by a 2-1 majority, said that the organization CYC was liable; but by a different 2-1 majority, ruled that the individual who had declined the booking, Mr Rowe, was not liable.  Background Facts The complainant organisation, Cobaw, runs a project called “WayOut”, designed to provide support and suicide prevention services to “same sex attracted young people”. The co-ordinator of the project approached CYC (a camping organisation connected with the Christian Brethren denomination) to inquire about making a booking at a Phillip Island

Christian student thrown out of university course - for calling homosexual marriage sinful

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In February 2016, the Social Work student Felix Ngole was subject to a ‘ Fitness to Practise Committee’ hearing at Sheffield University where he was in the second year of his Masters degree . This hearing was brought about due to concerns that he posted comments on his private Facebook account expressing his belief that homosexual behaviour was against the teachings of the bible and that gay marriage was sinful. Now a judge has ruled it was over the top. It means the dad of four can mount a judicial review at the High Court in London . The court could rule that he must be­ reinstated. He said: “The university claims my views are discriminatory but I am the one being discriminated against because of my expression of Christian beliefs .” Commenting on being removed from his course at the time, the father of four is quoted in the Telegraph as having said: “The way I was treated made me feel that their duty of care to me immediately ended from the day they received that com