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Dear Sir,

Dr David Mackereth has been discriminated against and denied a job with the Department of Work and Pensions because of his Christian belief that God made mankind male and female. Dr Mackereth believed he should not be compelled to use a preferred specific pronoun to address a transgender patient. I fully agree. Religious belief is also a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, but evidently some protected characteristics are more protected than others.

Dear Sir,

As one who might be labelled a ‘Leftie Christian’ by John Humphrey (en, July, the mail box), might I add a few comments to his letter. There are Christians in all main political parties. I joined the Labour Party a few years back, partly because a prominent evangelical within the Conservative Party (who suffered for standing by his principles) encouraged me to seek to recall Labour to its Christian Socialist roots, as he had taken a stand within the Conservatives. Events in recent weeks have brought home to me how much the leadership of all political parties and other organisations have been taken over by those with a profoundly anti-Christian agenda.