Evangelical organisations have begun legal action against one of Scotland’s largest charities, accusing it of anti-religious discrimination.
Stirling Free Church and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), which continues the work of the late American preacher, are suing the Robertson Trust, a poverty relief agency linked to one of the country’s best-known whisky producers.
The groups, which oppose same-sex marriage, claim that contracts to use rooms owned by the trust were cancelled because of objections to their beliefs. The allegations are strongly rejected by the charity, which gives away about £20 million a year. It distributes dividends from its controlling stake in the whisky firm Edrington, which owns the Famous Grouse and Macallan.
The Free Church congregation claims that the trust agreed to allow them