A judge has declared the belief that God created everyone as either male and female, and that this cannot be changed, as “incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others.”
According to the Christian Legal Centre, the ruling of the employment tribunal judge places the belief – cited by Jesus himself – on a par with racist and Neo-Nazi ideologies held to be “not worthy of respect in a democratic society” in earlier judicial decisions. Andrea Williams, the centre’s chief executive, said the decision also represented the “first time in the history of English law that a judge has ruled that free citizens must engage in compelled speech”.
