Crosses, cakes and challah bread in the courtroom

David Shepherd  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Mar 2022
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Crosses, cakes and challah bread in the courtroom

Challah bread | photo: iStock

Two recent court judgements have shown that, although the tide has not completely turned for hard-line LGBT advocacy groups, it may well have reached its high-water mark. Job 38:11 comes to mind: ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt?’

A little while ago, an employment tribunal ruled that a London NHS Trust had ‘directly discriminated against and harassed’ a Catholic nurse, Mary Onuoha, who was forced to resign after refusing to remove her necklace bearing a small cross.

In another fairly recent judgement, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed Gareth Lee’s complaint against Ashers Bakery, in which he claimed they were discriminating against him by not producing a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage.

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