British magistrate fired for airing opposition to homosexual adoption
UNITED KINGDOM , – A British magistrate suspended last year for preferring heterosexual adoptive couples to homosexuals has been fired outright for repeating his views on the BBC . Richard Page , 69, a magistrate in the Maidstone and Sevenoaks courts in Kent and a father of three, was fired for expressing his "biased and prejudiced" views on the BBC without permission, but says he will appeal through the employment tribunal. "To punish me and to seek to silence me for expressing a dissenting view is deeply worrying. I shall challenge this decision, as it is deeply illiberal and intolerant," he told reporters. Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre agreed: "This unmasks the face of the new political orthodoxy; it is unkind. It tries to silence opposing views and if it fails it crushes and punishes the person who holds those views. To remove someone like Richard from the bench is modern-day madness. He has a lifetime of public service, exper