Nov 07, 2007Quickie Link: Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Appointed to Human Rights Body
By vanrozenheim
(UK) - The appointment earlier this week of Rev. Joel Edwards, leader of the Evangelical Alliance, as a commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission will distort the concept of Human Rights and put Gay rights in danger, the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association said last night. “Joel Edwards leads one of the most homophobic organisations in Britain,” GHALA chairman Jim Herrick said. “The Evangelical Alliance is an umbrella group that shelters some of the most extreme anti-Gay groups and churches in the country. “How does the Government imagine that this man can participate in decisions about the rights of Gay people in a fair and balanced way when he believes that we are all sinners who should live without sexual expression,” Mr. Herrick asked.
