Christianity has "no legal standing..."

British Judge:

Christian Beliefs Have

No Legal Standing

By Al Webb
Religion News Service

LONDON (RNS) A top British judge has ruled that Christian beliefs have no standing under secular law because they lack evidence and cannot be proven.

Lord Justice John Grant McKenzie Laws made the declaration on Thursday (April 29) in throwing out a defamation suit by Christian relationship counselor who refused to offer sex therapy to gay couples.

Gary McFarlane protested that he was fired because offering sex therapy to same-gender couples violates his Christian principles.

But Laws said "religious faith is necessarily subjective, being incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence." He added that to use the law to protect "a position held purely on religious grounds cannot therefore be justified."

No religious belief, said the judge, can be protected under the law "however long its tradition, however rich its culture."

Laws also dismissed as "misplaced" and "mistaken" former archbishop of Canterbury George Carey's warning that a wave of discrimination against Christians threatens "civil war" in Britain.

See the full story at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/british-judge-christian-b_n_559244.html

Comments

[Sarah]

"A top British judge has ruled that Christian beliefs have no standing under secular law because they lack evidence and cannot be proven."

And since when has the missing link been "proven"?

The more I read and hear about the UK, the more sick of them I become.

[Elana]

Perhaps he should have taught the gay couple according to the "Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition".
- - - Homosexality is disordered.
- - - NO sex except in marriage (defined between one man and one woman).
- - - And use Liviticus 18:22, Bible that sodomy is an abomination.