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Homosexual rights trump religious freedom

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Image via Wikipedia I have thought long and hard about whether to blog about a recent legal judgment that has made the headlines here in the UK , and about what I would want to say if I did. There has been much print spilled in some of our newspapers, many blogs written, and perhaps much confusion as a result. In particular there has been much attention drawn to a quote attributed to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission ( EHRC ) submission in this case, which apparently stated that children risk being ‘infected’ by Christian moral beliefs. The Commission  has since apologized for this , stating: Unfortunately a mistake within our legal submission led to an inference that we did not intend and which was misconstrued as suggesting that the Commission equates Christian moral views with an infection. This oversight was caused by a drafting error in our submissions to the court. This should have been picked up in our internal clearance process for the legal documentation and does n