Category - gay rights

Bishop faces equal opportunities training after discrimination award

staff writers — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:15:21 +0000

An Anglican bishop will be expected to take equal opportunities training and faces costs of some £50,000 after a tribunal awarded a gay youth worker £47,000 compensation after ruling that he had been discriminated against.

Equalities 'historic opportunity' for evangelicals

Press Office — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:19:56 +0000

The think-tank Ekklesia, which examines religion in public life, says that the controversial appointment of the head of the Evangelical Alliance UK to the new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is "a historic opportunity for evangelicals to shift toward full acceptance of the equalities agenda."

Hate speech and free speech

Simon Barrow — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:56:07 +0100

Jack Straw has decided to introduce legislation which will prohibit the incitement of homophobic hatred. It is well-intentioned, but will this legislation work? Is it necessary?

Mixed Christian response over incitement to hatred against gays

staff writers — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:41:05 +0100

Plans to make inciting hatred against gay people a crime have received a mixed response from church groups.

Anti-gay rights activists do not represent most religious opinion, say critics

staff writers — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:45:13 +0000

Lobbyists trying to derail recent UK equalities legislation because of their vociferous opposition to homosexuality do not represent the majority of Christians or people of faith, let alone most people in Britain, critics of protests against the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) have said.

Faith groups are misrepresenting sexual equality rules, say critics

staff writers — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:21:54 +0000

Ahead of a rally in opposition to the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) outside parliament tonight (9 January 2007), which protestors predict will attract several thousand participants, supporters of the equalities legislation ‚Ä' from civil rights, religious and secular groups ‚Ä' say that the regulations are being widely misrepresented.