Govt drops Equality Oath plans
From Christian Institute.
The Government has dropped plans to require public office holders to swear an oath to equality.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid MP ignored calls from former Government Integration Tsar Dame Louise Casey for all public office holders to swear an oath of allegiance to poorly defined ‘British values’.
Casey made the recommendation in her integration review in late 2016, but the Government’s response in the Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper includes no such plans.
Writing for Conservative Home, Dr Martin Parsons welcomed the news, saying Javid has sifted through Casey’s proposals and ‘binned the chaff’.
He said: “Sajid Javid was absolutely right to reject a proposal from the Casey Review which would have in effect have reintroduced a ‘Test Act’ and quite literally have turned the clock back three centuries on freedom of religion”.
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