Dec 03, 2006Articles: Gay rights - how hardline Christians use shock tactics against new law
By vanrozenheim
(United Kingdom) - One of Baroness Thatcher's closest political allies is behind a push to derail new laws designed to end discrimination against homosexuals. Lord Mackay of Clashfern, a former lord chancellor during the Thatcher era, is the patron of the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship (LCF), part of a coalition of religious groups opposed to the new rules which they say will ride roughshod over their beliefs. The new rules, which ban those offering goods and services from discriminating against gays and lesbians, will force them to act against their consciences, they say.
