Religion and the rights of the LGBTQA+ community have had some high-profile clashes. An employment tribunal has recently considered whether a doctor’s religious beliefs ‘trump’ the right of someone who is transgender to be addressed by their chosen pronoun (he, she, they). Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights allows people the right… Read More
Religious Discrimination
In Trayhorn v The Secretary of State for Justice the EAT held that it was not direct or indirect religious discrimination to discipline an employee who openly condemns homosexuality and spoke of repentance during a Prison church service. In this case the claimant was a Pentecostal Christian who was disciplined after quoting from a passage… Read More