from Christian Concern
Can you imagine a world in which merely believing the Bible could get you fired? Tim Dieppe discusses the case of Felix Ngole and how that dystopian reality may be closer than we think.
The extraordinary case of Felix Ngole continues this week with a second appearance in the Court of Appeal due to his expression of his Christian beliefs. Felix is thought to be the first person ever to have fought two separate cases in the Court of Appeal over Christian freedoms.
Court found Felix does not discriminate
Felix was vindicated in a landmark Court of Appeal judgment in 2019, when the court ruled that Sheffield University was wrong to expel him from a social work course for expressing his Christian beliefs about sexual ethics on social media. He bravely returned to the university, completed the course, and qualified as a social worker.
The Court of Appeal in 2019 ruled that “mere expression of religious views about sin does not necessarily connote discrimination.” It further found that in relation to Felix himself that: “there was positive evidence” that he had “never discriminated on such grounds”, and that he was “not likely to do so in the future (because as he explained, the Bible prohibited him from discriminating against anybody).”
One would have thought that this would make Felix a model employee! What other social work job applicant has had a Court of Appeal judgment saying that they do not discriminate?
