Gov’t admits churches face Equality Bill legal battles
The Christian Institute: “Churches should be ‘lining up’ lawyers to defend themselves against secular legal challenges under the Equality Bill, a Government equalities minister has admitted. Michael Foster MP, a minister in Harriet Harman’s Equalities Office, was asked whether the Bill would lead to legal action between churches and atheists . . . ‘The secularists should have the right to challenge the church and if the church’s argument is good enough – which I believe it is – then the church should win through.’”