New Sexual Orientation Regulations a Threat to Religious Freedom
Scotland's leading Catholic figure has strongly condemned the government's new sexual orientation regulations warning that they are a threat to the religious freedoms of all persons.
Posted: Thursday, June 15 , 2006

The leader of Scottish Catholics has delivered a strongly worded homily to a congregation of Catholic Peers and MPs in Westminster Wednesday in which he voiced his fierce opposition to the government’s sexual orientation regulations.

In his homily, Cardinal Keith O’Brien warned that the government’s proposed regulations designed to outlaw “sexual orientation discrimination” constitute a “threat to freedom of conscience” and “a threat to religious freedom”.

The Equality Act 2006, which means that the government can now prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in the provision of goods and services, could come into effect by October this year. the rest