Page 3 - Simon Calvert News Today

The Christian Institute in the United Kingdom is reiterating its promise to go to court against the Scottish government if lawmakers there continue with their agenda of religious censorship through a ban on "so-called conversation therapy."

Simon Calvert reminds the Scottish Government that it faces legal action if it criminalises mainstream Christian teaching on ethics under conversion practices legislation.

The Scottish government has published plans to ban the barbaric and widely discredited practice of LGBTQ+ conversion therapy.

The SNP government wants to introduce new laws which would make it illegal to try and force an individual to suppress or change their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Scotland’s Catholic Church is urging the government to not ban “conversion practices,” saying it could create “a chilling effect and may criminalize advice or opinion given in good faith.”

The SNP wants to introduce new laws which would make it illegal try and force an individual to suppress or change their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Equalities Minister Emma Roddick says conversion practices "have absolutely no place in Scotland".

The Scottish Government has announced it will launch its public consultation on legislation to ban so-called conversion therapy on 9 January.

Liberal theologians are attacking the theology of Bible-believing churches by claiming it is “abusive” to call homosexual people to repentance. Meanwhile, within faithful churches, there is confusion over whether it is a sin to desire to sin. Simon Calvert discusses these thorny issues with Matthew Roberts, Minister of Trinity Church in York, and William Philip, Senior Minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow.

The Private Members' Bill from Lib Dem peer Baroness Burt of Solihull wants "to prohibit sexual orientation and gender identity conversion therapy".