UK: Tribunal fines Church England £47,000 for refusing to hire homosexual
John Reaney took the Hereford diocesan board of finance to an employment tribunal after his appointment as a youth worker was blocked. Bishop of Hereford Anthony Priddis has apologised and gay rights group Stonewall said the "substantial compensation" sent a clear message . . .
In his evidence to the original tribunal, Bishop Priddis said anyone in a sexual relationship outside marriage would have been rejected . However the tribunal last month ruled Mr Reaney, who now lives in Cardiff, had been discriminated against "on the grounds of sexual orientation" . . .
The award is made up of £7,000 damages for psychiatric injury, £6,000 for injury to feelings, £25 for costs incurred in seeking work, £1,320 cost of counselling, £25,000 for future loss of wages and £8,000 for future pension loss.
ADF President Alan Sears and Vice-President Craig Osten predicted this problem several years ago: The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today
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Always nice to be prescient…well, maybe not so nice in this context.
What a sad–and dangerous–day for Christians when we can no longer make employment decisions re activities relating to the church.
Effectively a state religion is being established in the West. One of its tenets is the acceptance of homosexuality, the other is likely to be universalism, the denial that any one religion is the only way to God. It appears likely that we may have to go to jail if we are not willing to violate our consciences, as we must not to be obedient to God.
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