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National Law Trumps Religious Law Says UK Equality Chief
Christians who wish to be exempt from national law when it goes against their religious belief are no different to Muslims demanding sharia law, said British Trevor Phillips, chairman of the British Equalities and Human Rights Commission at a debate on February 4. His remarks were reported by the Catholic newspaper the Tablet, and the story appeared on the front page of the Telegraph on February 17.
“The law stops at the door of the temple so far as I’m concerned,” he said. “When you’re inside the church, inside the temple, you’re governed by what you are. But once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then you have to go with public law.”
His statements came in response to a question about Catholic adoption agencies, which have been forced to close because they will not place children with homosexual couples as Britain’s non-discrimination laws require.
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