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The recommendations are “fundamentally illiberal in intent” — lawyer

The Christian Institute’s Simon Calvert pours scorn on the claim of SNP Cabinet minister Angus Robertson that the Scottish Government’s push to make legal sex changes easier is comparable to Nelson Mandela’s heroic fight to overcome apartheid.

Religious activists are already preparing to challenge the proposed ban on conversion therapy on grounds of religious freedom.

Eminant lawyer acting for a Christian charity says legislation prohibiting the controversial practice would be beyond Holyrood's powers

THE Scottish Government has been warned it could face a courtroom challenge if it brings forward its plans to ban conversion therapy.

A key lawyer who has fought the government and won is warning that it simply doesn't have the power to criminalize the words of prayers.

Staff members at the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom have been instructed not to say the word "Christmas," but instead to call it something else to promote religious "inclusion."

The Christian Institute’s Simon Calvert dismisses the barmy suggestion put forward by the University of Brighton that the word Christmas should be dropped by staff in the name of ‘religious inclusivity’.

It shouldn’t need saying. Banning prayers and pastoral care is repressive and wrong. It is an obvious breach of human rights. Yet the Scottish Government is being urged to do exactly this in the guise of a ban on “conversion therapy”.

The Scottish Government is on a collision course with the courts again as it prepares legislation criminalising ‘conversion therapy’. Top KC Aidan O’Neill has warned that the proposals would be outside the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.