Dame Louise Casey: Replacing one form of intolerance with another

Jan 11, 2017 by

from Grassroots Conservatives:

On January 9th in a House of Commons Committee Room the Government’s integration tsar Dame Louise Casey labelled church schools supportive of traditional marriage as ‘homophobic’. She accused opponents of gay marriage of using ‘religious conservatism as a veil for anti-equality views’. This contradicts the official guidance that teachers and schools do not need to support or endorse same-sex marriage.The extremism agenda is at risk of being hijacked to marginalise those who take a stand for traditional marriage

In 2015 Dame Casey was commissioned by the then prime minister David Cameron to undertake a review into integration and opportunity in isolated and deprived communities. Dame Casey published her review in December 2016. In this she recommends that everyone who holds public office should take an equality oath. The Government is due to give its response in mid-February.

One of our committee members contributed substantial evidence to the review and has expressed disappointment in the omissions it makes, not least that it fails to understand the role and importance of religion in the communities it is reviewing.

This review has been significantly criticised by those concerned for political and religious freedom in the UK, because her review:

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Read also: Opposing same-sex marriage ‘un-British and homophobic’, Christian Institute

 

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