Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, made the shocking claim in an email to the group’s supporters.
It comes after Digital Cinema Media, which provides ads to all UK major cinema chains, came under fire for blocking a request for the Church to screen a Lord’s Prayer advert, under an existing policy of “not accepting political or religious advertising”.
The Church threatened legal action under the Equality Act – but Perkins appears to have misinterpreted the story, and is now claiming the Equality Act is actually the reason for the ban.
The group claimed: “If you want to pray for Paris – or anything really – stay away from parts of the UK.
It adds: “The most disturbing aspect of this story may be the basis for which the ad was rejected.
“According to the Church’s legal counsel, the agency banned the commercial on the grounds of the country’s Equality Act, which blocks organizations (including faith-based ones) from refusing service for religious reasons.”
The group ties the row to the proposed US Equality Act, which would protect LGBT workers in all 50 states.
It continues: “If the law sounds familiar, it should. President Obama just threw his support behind an American version of the policy, which would all but end religious liberty as we know it.
“Just two weeks ago, the White House said it “strongly supports” the legislation that would dramatically alter the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to force Americans conformity on homosexuality and transgenderism.
“And how do you force conformity? By taking away freedom – just as the British are doing.”
The Church of England are exempt from the Equality Act – but we don’t expect Perkins wants to let facts get in the way of anything.
Well, at least he's sharing his unique style of Christian love with our British brothers and sisters.
I'm fairly sure he'll meet with a very warm welcome with them.
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the Equality Act has got nothing to do with it
he's playing martyr to a piece of UK legislation that did not apply to what he wanted to do (try studying the text. None of it makes sense). For his own political ends of course
Britain is a fiercely secular country, and these people never get that
quite simply, the ad company was doing what almost every commercial undertaking in the UK does - don't go anywhere near politics or religion, and everyone's happy
apart from the fact that British audiences would have been horrified to see the Lord's Prayer come up on the screen. Christ, how spooky is that? The ad company would have been finished. Britain is not Kentucky. We eat the chicken, and that's about as far as we want to go
he should visit us one day, and wander round some of the ruined abbeys and monasteries which we destroyed in the 16th century. He might get the picture then
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