Edinburgh Council will have to pay £25,000 in damages to a Scottish church after cancelling its conference because of the traditional Christian beliefs about sexuality of one of its speakers.
The local authority had effectively banned the three-day conference planned by Destiny Church for the Usher Hall in summer last year because it objected to preacher Larry Stockhill who was due to address the event.
The council has now apologised and admitted it ‘failed to meet its equalities duties to Destiny Ministries in terms of the Equality Act 2010 and therefore acted unlawfully’.
