The Ad That Ran in Country Life.

The Coalition for Marriage, an organisation that resists any attempts to make marriage rights equal, ran an ad in the magazine Country Life, and a virtual storm ensued.

“Country Life ran an ad in which Coalition for Marriage claimed that 70% of people did not want the definition of marriage changed, which is based not on a recognised poll, but on one they had commissioned. And there was a backlash on Facebook and Twitter.”

Now the mild-mannered British Christians are now acting like the US Christian Right

The Christian Institute are waging a war against the Politically Correct Brigade, who’ll stop you wearing a Cross and force you to watch lesbian soap operas.

Traditionally, the Americans have been the pit-bull terriers of Christ, tearing up everything in their path and crapping over the aftermath.

The dread Lillian Ladelle is told where to go.

The Christian Institute and Lillian Ladele overruled by the Court of Appeal. Good sense prevailed in this emotive case.

The Court of Appeal ruling on December 15, 2009, is a landmark ruling because it clarifies the position of employees who object to aspects of their work on religious grounds.

Committed Christian who worked in a registry office sues!

Lillian Ladele, former registry office employee in the borough of Islington, and – gasp, horror – Mother of Child Outside Wedlock, claims she believes civil partnerships are wrong because she follows what the bible teaches. Apparently.

The portrayal of Ladele as an innocent victim who simply followed the rule of the Bible is a narrative device that is, in the end, irrelevant. The Daily Mail gets lost in it, failing to make any real analysis of the story to hand, but the issue is simple: a registrar is employed in a secular institution to enact the law of the land.