{"id":1527,"date":"2012-02-17T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:20:40","slug":"uk-human-rights-chairman-wants-freedom-of-religion-restricted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"UK human rights chairman wants freedom of religion restricted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Phillips, the chairman of Britain&#8217;s Equality and Human Rights Commission, has said that religious believers should not be free to adhere to their own tenets when acting in the public domain.\u00a0 \u201cOnce you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law,\u201d he said.\u00a0 He agreed with the court ruling that forced the closure of all Catholic adoption agencies in Britain because they objected to adoption by persons identified as homosexual.\u00a0 [<a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9087775\/Christians-arent-above-the-law-says-equalities-chief-Trevor-Phillips.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Phillips, the chairman of Britain&#8217;s Equality and Human Rights Commission, has said that religious believers should not be free to adhere to their own tenets when acting in the public domain.\u00a0 \u201cOnce you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to &hellip; 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