Banning conversion therapy or banning the Gospel?

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1. ¹ Steve Chalke tweet, 11 August 2020, see https://twitter.com/SteveChalke/status/1293074834273034240 as at 19 November 2020
2. ² ‘The 5 damaging practices that churches inflict on LGBT people’, Steve Chalke, Open Church Network, see https://www.openchurch.network/blog/the-5-damaging-practices-that-churches-inflict-on-lgbt-people as at 19 November 2020; ‘Steve Chalke says churches are 'skating on thin ice' by doing conversion therapy’, Premier Christian News, 17 October 2020, see https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/steve-chalke-says-churches-are-skating-on-thin-ice-by-doing-conversion-therapy as at 20 November 2020
3. ³ The Guardian, 17 October 2020
4. ⁴ General Synod, Private Member’s Motion: Conversion Therapy, GS 2070A, June 2017, see https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2017-11/gs-2070a-conversion-therapy.pdf as at 19 November 2020; Jayne Ozanne speaking at Abusive Practice of Gay Conversion Therapy - Healthcare and Secularism, 16 November 2018, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZrAo6fb-s&feature=youtu.be as at 20 November 2020
5. ⁵ ITV News online, 8 July 2020, see https://www.itv.com/news/2020-07-08/religious-leaders-press-equalities-minister-to-ban-conversion-therapy-amid-possible-delay as at 20 November 2020
6. ⁶ ‘Christian equality campaigner Vicky Beeching talks conversion therapy, mental health and church discrimination’,The Independent online, 12 June 2018, see https://www.indy100.com/article/christian-rock-star-vicky-beeching-talks-conversion-therapy-mental-health-and-church-discrimination-8393951 as at 20 November 2020
7. ⁷ Loc cit
8. ⁸ Ozanne Foundation letter to the Prime Minister, Ozanne Foundation, 8 September 2020, see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cW_AVqbk7ASjzngDz91jTCKxw7sUMAEa/view as at 20 November 2020
9. ⁹ General Synod, Private Member’s Motion: Conversion Therapy, GS 2070A, June 2017, see https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2017-11/gs-2070a-conversion-therapy.pdf as at 19 November 2020
10. ¹⁰ Loc cit
11. ¹¹ Jayne Ozanne speaking at Abusive Practice of Gay Conversion Therapy - Healthcare and Secularism, 16 November 2018, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZrAo6fb-s&feature=youtu.be as at 20 November 2020
12. ¹² Ozanne Foundation letter to the Prime Minister, Ozanne Foundation, 8 September 2020, see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cW_AVqbk7ASjzngDz91jTCKxw7sUMAEa/view as at 20 November 2020
13. ¹³ Steve Chalke tweet, 11 August 2020, see https://twitter.com/SteveChalke/status/1293074834273034240 as at 19 November 2020
14. ¹⁴ ‘The 5 damaging practices that churches inflict on LGBT people’, Steve Chalke, Open Church Network, see https://www.openchurch.network/blog/the-5-damaging-practices-that-churches-inflict-on-lgbt-people as at 19 November 2019
15. ¹⁵ Health Legislation Amendment Act 2020, Parliament of Queensland, 16 September 2020, Chapter 5B Conversion therapies; Federal Ministry of Health Germany Press Release, Act to Protect against Conversion Treatments, 7 May 2020; ‘Draft law to protect against conversion treatments’, German Bundestag, 19 February 2020, see https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/fileadmin/Dateien/3_Downloads/Gesetze_und_Verordnungen/GuV/K/GE_Konversionstherapienverbot_bf.pdf as at 20 November 2020
16. ¹⁶ Canada’s National Observer, 10 March 2020; Bill C-6, House of Commons of Canada, 1 October 2020, Section 320.102
17. ¹⁷ Bill C-6, House of Commons of Canada, 1 October 2020, Section 320.102
18. ¹⁸ ‘Ban Conversion Therapy’, An open letter to the Rt Hon Liz Truss, 9 July 2020, see https://www.banconversiontherapy.com/the-letter as at 20 November 2020
19. ¹⁹ BBC News online, 20 July 2020, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53477323 as at 20 November 2020
20. ²⁰ Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government submission of 17 July 2020, see https://www.parliament.scot/S5_PublicPetitionsCommittee/Submissions%202020/PE1817_A.pdf as at 20 November 2020
21. ²¹ House of Commons Written Answers, 3 July 2018, UIN 158758
22. ²² ‘Conversion therapy is happening in every day practice – and must stop!’, Gender GP, 3 July 2020, see https://www.gendergp.com/should-conversion-therapy-be-made-illegal/ as at 20 November 2020
23. ²³ National LGBT Survey, Government Equalities Office, July 2018, page 7
24. ²⁴ Ibid, page14
25. ²⁵ Loc cit
26. ²⁶ ‘Faith & Sexuality Survey 2018’, Ozanne Foundation, Executive Summary 2019, see https://drive.google.com/file/d/19kLvZuJ7CjZ1o3GaIEJM1y6nOicLt4QS/view as at 20 November 2020
27. ²⁷ ‘Faith & Sexuality Survey 2018’, Ozanne Foundation, National Faith & Sexuality Survey Full Set of Results, see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CzY3fcar74T_8eJiUrL-ioV9g7koKAob/view as at 20 November 2020
28. ²⁸ The Christian Institute, Judicial Review [2007] NIQB 66, para. 50
29. ²⁹ Bill C-6, House of Commons of Canada, 1 October 2020, Section 320.102 and Section 320.103
30. ³⁰ Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Statement by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on Bill C-6, 7 October 2020, see https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CCCB-statement-on-Bill-C-6-conversion-therapy-EN.pdf as at 20 November 2020
31. ³¹ ‘Concern over Bill C-6 on conversion therapy’, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, 13 October 2020, see https://www.evangelicalfellowship.ca/Communications/Outgoing-letters/October-2020/Concern-over-Bill-C-6-on-conversion-therapy as at 20 November 2020