Victory for Christian registrar bullied for refusing to perform 'sinful' gay weddings

By Olinka Koster
10th July 2008

A Christian registrar who refused to carry out gay 'weddings' won a landmark legal battle yesterday.

Lillian Ladele, 47, was threatened with the sack, bullied and 'thrown before the lions' after asking to be excused from conducting civil partnerships for same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs.

But yesterday a tribunal agreed that her faith had been ridden roughshod over by equalities-obsessed Islington Council, which had sought to 'trump one set of rights with another'.

The groundbreaking decision could lead to firms facing 'conscience claims' from staff who say their own beliefs prevent them carrying out part of their job. the rest