Conversion Therapy Bans: an Ongoing Threat to Biblical Christianity – Part 2

Feb 15, 2023 by

By Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism.

An earlier article discussed the attempt in Great Britain to prohibit religious teaching and practice against homosexuality and transgenderism through enactment of a “conversion therapy” ban. As noted earlier, the word “conversion” seems targeted at religious doctrine, and lumps coercive (and sometimes physically painful) practices of the past against homosexuality together with Christian doctrine and practice, which people who disagree with find painful. While the U.K. government in Westminster seems disinclined toward the ban, and particularly disinclined toward including religious practices, the “devolved” governments in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland want to go ahead. Although it is not clear that they have the authority to do so, they are nonetheless forging ahead against the vocal opposition of Christian groups, who understand that their faith is being made illegal.

Simply to digest the scope of anti-conversion campaign in terms of what it will cover and the depth of its reach into ordinary, family, and church life takes time to digest. It is on par with the common prohibition that existed in communist countries against providing religious education to young people, perhaps even worse, as it makes illegal all religious speech and activity against sexual sin.

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