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Gary McFarlane case ruling

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Evangelical Alliance responds

29 April 2010

 

Stephen Cave, Executive Director of Public Policy at the Evangelical Alliance said: "The ruling in the Gary McFarlane case demonstrates that recourse to the law may not always be helpful when it comes to balancing the complexities of human relationships. Equality legislation is supposed to protect religious belief, but this judgement, along with others before it, shows that there are major problems in working that protection out in practice.

"There has to be a better way of dealing with cases such as this outside the courts, which allows space for people of faith and no faith to live and work together, freely and respectfully able to express their diverse beliefs in public."

 

Media Contact:

Charis Gibson
Evangelical Alliance
020 7207 2117
c.gibson@eauk.org

Notes to editors:
The Evangelical Alliance, formed in 1846, is the largest body serving evangelical Christians in the UK, and has a membership including denominations, churches, organisations and individuals. The mission of the Evangelical Alliance is to unite evangelicals to present Christ credibly as good news for spiritual and social transformation. According to a Tearfund survey (Churchgoing in the UK, 2007), there are approximately 2 million evangelical Christians in the UK. For more information, go to www.eauk.org.
 

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