The Government says its new Equality Bill will force churches to employ practising homosexuals or transsexuals in many roles including youth worker posts.
The Government is not content with undermining all public standards of decency if is going to brake the church too.
Equalities minister Maria Eagle said religious believers should push ‘gay rights’ in their communities, but in the meantime the state would do it.
The tolerant left once again has shown just how totally intolerant it is to anyone who has standards of decency.
At present churches can restrict certain posts to heterosexuals as long as those posts are for the purposes of organised religion, which could include jobs like a youth worker. Under the new legislation this exemption will be greatly narrowed to only jobs that involve leading worship or explaining doctrine.
Maria Eagle, the Government’s equalities minister said that “while the state would not intervene in narrowly ritual or doctrinal matters” it would tell churches what to do in other areas.
She also said “members of faith groups have a role in making the argument in their own communities for greater LGBT acceptance, but in the meantime the state has a duty to protect people from unfair treatment.”
See http://www.christian.org.uk/news/20090520/government-to-force-gay-youth-… for more information.
