With press speculation rife that Rishi Sunak will publish a draft Bill on ‘conversion therapy’, the Institute’s Deputy Director Ciarán Kelly warns of the risk it would pose to preaching, prayer, pastoral care and parenting that uphold biblical sexual ethics.
Primary school pupils, staff and governors at a Gateshead school are being left isolated and vulnerable by the Department for Education (DfE) more than a year after it was called on to stand behind its own guidance on teaching contested political issues like transgenderism.
The Institute’s Deputy Director Ciarán Kelly urges the Prime Minister to heed the warnings from Australia and not outlaw so-called conversion therapy which would jeopardise the ordinary work of churches, such as preaching on repentance and resisting temptation.