UK: Christians urged to act over ‘outrageous’ Coroners Bill

Wednesday, 17th June 2009
By Matt Cresswell

CHRISTIANS ACROSS the UK are being urged to sign a petition calling on the Prime Minister to scrap part of a Bill which could ban Christians voicing traditional views on sexuality.

The Coroners and Justice Bill is likely to be debated in the House of Lords next week, and one critic, the Conservative peer Lord Waddington, told this newspaper he was “outraged” by the government’s attempts to remove a safeguard on freedom of speech from the Bill.

Organised by the Christian Legal Centre (CLC) the petition is calling on the government to change clause 61, which eliminates a safeguard on freedom of speech to the Bill.

Andrea Minichiello Williams, barrister and founder of the CLC, believes clause 61 could prevent any Christian openly stating a conservative reading of the Bible’s views on homosexual practise and even marriage. the rest