Thu Jan 27, 2022 – 1:09 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A Christian campaign group in Scotland has warned the Scottish Parliament that it will face legal action if it forges ahead with plans to introduce a blanket ban on so-called LGBT “conversion therapy,” accusing the committee which recommended the measures of “bias.”
The Christian Institute (CI), a British religious campaign group for the promotion of Christian ideals in the U.K., is pushing back against a broad proposal in Holyrood to limit “conversion therapy” for people experiencing same-sex attraction and “gender identity” crises, describing the law as “the most extreme legislation on conversion therapy in the Western world.”
On Tuesday, the Equalities, Human Rights, and Civil Justice Committee (EHRCJ) of the Scottish Parliament issued a 45-page dossier calling for an end to conversion therapy, including “religious teaching, prayer or other speech directed at an individual or group of individuals if it does not accept their view of their gender identity or sexuality,” the CI explained.
The proposal seeks to outlaw “any model or individual viewpoint that demonstrates an assumption that any sexual orientation or gender identity is inherently preferable to any other,” thereby criminalizing conversations in which
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