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Scottish Catholics fear proposed ‘conversion therapy’ ban will lead to ‘State-approved’ suppression of religious freedoms

January 10, 2024

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Scotland’s Catholic Church is urging the Scottish government not to ban “conversion practices” directed at LGBTQ+ individuals, saying such a measure could create “a chilling effect and may criminalize advice or opinion given in good faith”. The Scottish government has launched a consultation on banning what it refers to as “conversion

The inhumanity of banning conversion therapy

September 18, 2023

News has broken that the government is beginning to think again about bringing forward legislation to ban so-called conversion therapy, if only because of the obvious and tragic consequences thrown up by the misery and confusion of transgenderism. This may be a pragmatic response. But there is an ideological, philosophical and moral agenda that has been

The proposed ‘conversion therapy’ ban will make criminals out of loving parents

February 14, 2023

In a recent article in the Telegraph, Charles Moore, a former editor of that newspaper and of the Spectator, noted that “all mainstream religions, in most of their major manifestations, define marriage as being between a man and a woman”. In the light of this he declares that MPs who want to ban so called