Equalities Commission unequal agenda

29 March 2011

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wants teachers to ask children if they are homosexual.

A report commissioned by the Equality Commission recommends that children should be asked if they are homosexual from the age of 11 and that records should be kept of those unsure about or ‘questioning’ their sexuality.

Some have described this as sinister.  People frequently complain that the church is ‘hung up’ about sex.  When one considers the salacious tone of the tabloid press, the homosexual agenda, the sexualising of children and the pressure to lower the age of consent, the sex education agenda in our schools, it is manifest that it is not the church which has a hang-up about sex but it is ungodly people who have a one-track mind - they are in the church, in the media, in the arts, in politics, and probably in the EHRC.  Society needs to be delivered from them and to learn the Biblical injunction: “whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; think on these things” Philippians 4:8.

It is about time that the EHRC was taken to task for its inequality and unequal agenda.  Those who administer the law are not above the law.  We need more of the Gospel to remind them of this.

The creeping encroachment of the Equality Commission upon Britain’s morals and behaviour suggests that George Orwell’s “Thought Police” are alive and well, although the EHRC was formed in 2007 and not in 1984.  This incessant desire to control the thinking of other human beings has a long history, including the continental Inquisition and its British equivalent.  During Covenanting Times, the government used fines and imprisonment as its form of thought policing in Scotland.  Current religious persecution has arisen in a generation which was not taught about the Covenanting struggle.  The Scottish Christian Party will reverse this deficiency in our school history curriculum.

The divine right of kings has been replaced by the supercilious and sanctimonious tones of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.  Just as Scotland resisted the former, it will resist the impositions of the latter.

The EHRC recently claimed that Christian foster parents may infect children with their moral values, for which they offered a limited apology, and a lame excuse did not hide their Freudian slip.  The judgement in this fostering case suggested that homosexual rights take precedence over religious rights.  “Some animals are more equal than others”, thanks to our Equalities Commission.

In recent months the Equality Commission’s crusading agenda has included funding the case of a homosexual couple who sued Christian hotel owners in Penzance for embarrassment at their married couples only policy.

However, one of the homosexual couple said that he was even more embarrassed by the EHRC’s money-grabbing attempt to demand more compensation.  The EHRC abandoned its plans and lamely claimed it was an “error of judgment”.  Why did they not give the Penzance hotel owners this option concerning the embarrassment they caused?  It was bad publicity which forced their U-turn, not a change of their hard heart.

More details of the EHRC’s short but ignominious history can be found here.