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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...

The High Court will rule on whether Christians who express "traditional" views on homosexuality can be barred from gaining professional qualifications after a social work student won the right to challenge his expulsion. Felix Ngole, 39, w as removed from a two-year MA course at Sheffield University in February last year after saying during a Facebook debate that "the Bible and God identify homosexuality as a sin". He received permission to mount a judicial review in a preliminary hearing at the High Court. The full case will be heard later this year. He is thought to be the first claimant to challenge a decision which barred him from a profession because his religious beliefs made him "unfit to practice". Mr Ngole, who also worked as a religious education teacher, argued that he had been unfairly stopped from completing his degree. His case is backed by the Christian Legal Centre , part of campaign group Christian Concern . Chief execut...

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. Re...

Image via Wikipedia BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, February 1, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – What’s in a name? Sometimes more than meets the eye. Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois is changing its name to Christian Social Services of Illinois as of today, but the shift is more than one of semantics. The social agency is ending its 64-year affiliation with the Diocese of Belleville so it can provide adoptions to homosexual couples. “CSS has chosen to become independent of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville in order to adhere to the new State of Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act and to avoid closing the agency,” the formerly Catholic service  stated  in a press release. It added, “The mission and values of Christian Social Services will remain the same.” Gary Huelsmann, the agency’s executive director, said, “Although we are sad to lose our Catholic identity, we are excited to be able to broaden our base of support to other Christian traditions .”...

Image via Wikipedia BELLEVILLE, Illinois,  – A Catholic agency in Illinois severed ties with its diocese last week in order to comply with a state law forcing adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples. The head of the former Diocese of Belleville child welfare agency, now called Christian Social Services of South Illinois , told LifeSiteNews they had “no choice” but to abide by the law after exhausting their legal options. Gary Huelsmann, executive director of the organization once known as Catholic Social Services of South Illinois, said the decision “boiled down to the Catholic Church needing to stay true to its core beliefs and the agency needing to care for all of these abused, neglected children.” “In order to be able to continue to do that with state funding we had to disassociate ourselves from the Church.  So it’s as simple as that,” he told LifeSiteNews. However, the agency’s decision to sever with the church has its prominent critics. In a colum...