In this podcast from our LGBT+ Lawyers Division, Imogen Hamblin, member of our LGBT+ Lawyers Committee, invites Steve Chalke and Matthew Hyndman to discuss the recent update in the conversation on banning conversion therapy.
It has been 1000 days since the Government pledged to ban conversion therapy and, following the Queen’s recent speech, there is an opportunity to believe that this is moving along. However, as Imogen, Steve and Matt discuss, there is also a lot of scepticism and loss of hope.
Listen below to this insightful discussion of personal stories, religion and LGBT+ identity.
Speakers:
Steve Chalke
Steve Chalke founded the Oasis Trust back in 1985 with a vision to build inclusive local communities. Oasis is now one of the largest charities in the UK, as well as working in a host of other countries. It provides housing, education, healthcare and various other community-building initiatives. It s also now working with the Ministry of Justice to create the UK
LGBT activist wants UK ban on the ‘power of prayer’
LGBT activist wants UK ban on the ‘power of prayer’
24 Feb 2021
An LGBT activist has called for Christians to be banned from praying for someone with unwanted same-sex attraction.
Writing in The Independent, Matthew Hyndman, who co-founded the lobby group Ban Conversion Therapy, denies that anyone willingly seeks out such help.
“The pernicious power of prayer must be dealt with”, he said.
‘Pernicious’
Hyndman said that as a young adult he worked as a missionary and wrestled with his attraction to men, which he knew was sinful.
However, when he revealed he was gay to his family and church, they did not condone his desires and told him to repent.
Children in England will have lost 850million hours of in-person teaching by the time schools are due to reopen on March 8, the Children s Commissioner warned Boris Johnson today.
Anne Longfield revealed the stark impact of the coronavirus lockdown on vulnerable and at-risk youngsters as she took aim at the Prime Minister over a lack of investment.
In a blunt assessment of Government policy the outgoing commissioner warned the Prime Minister his plan to level up Britain would remain just a slogan unless he stumps up cash on a large scale.
She suggested he emulate new US president Joe Biden and introduce family-orientated fiscal stimulus and criticised plans to axe a £20 increase to Universal Credit.
An academy chief today cast doubt on optimistic plans to get all pupils in England back into school at the start of March as he warned dates were being pulled out of thin air.
Dr Mike Tildesley and Dr Ed Hill, of Warwick University and advisers to SAGE, said their study was not evidence that schools were safe and called for reopening to be cautious .