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COMMENT | LOIS MCLATCHIE

Council’s admission shows Christians can’t be cancelled

The Times

I detect that change is in the air. Last week Edinburgh city council admitted it acted unlawfully in cancelling a Christian event on the basis of the beliefs held by a guest speaker. It stopped a Destiny Ministries conference, set to be held in the Usher Hall last summer, after receiving a complaint about the views of Larry Stockstill, an American preacher.

Stockstill has traditional Biblical values about marriage and sexuality, the same values held by one in five people in Britain. The Queen is head of a church that teaches such beliefs. Yet the local authority took it upon itself to censor Christians.

The wind of change is blowing down south too. On the same day that Edinburgh conceded wrongdoing, the Employment Appeal