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Spotlight on Collusion: the BBC and the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Mike Davidson offers a perspective on the BBCs NI Spotlight focus on ‘conversion therapy’ and the misleading contributions of the Royal College of Psychiatrists to both the Church of England and to the State on this issue
Ex-lesbian’s testimony: Jesus set me free from sexual sin
CIT Co-worker Kylie Delia describes herself as an ‘ex-lesbian’. Her story is one of joy, encouragement and extraordinary transformation in Jesus Christ. “I use that phrase to show what I’ve come out of,” she explains, “because in Christ, today I am a new creation.”
Joint Statement in Support of UK Minister Morgan’s Call to end ‘Gay Cure’ Therapy
End Aversion Therapy Not Client Right to Informed Consent and Self-Determination. A Joint statement from CIT and The Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity/NARTH Training Institute
Boris and Media Man Face Court Call Over Bus Ads
Boris Johnson and his former media adviser will face a call tomorrow (10 DEC 2013) to appear before the Court of Appeal to explain new evidence about the Mayor’s involvement in banning adverts on London buses during last year’s closely fought Mayoral election campaign. HEARING: TOMORROW – TUES 10 DEC 2013 – 10:30
Belfast Statement
David Pickup is a keynote speaker at the Belfast-based Core Issues being held on Tuesday 14th June at Belvoir Church of Ireland. The conference is called “Interrogating the Pejoratives”. Other speakers include Barrister Andrea Minichiello Williams. David will be giving an evening address on this topic on Thursday, 9th of June,
Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity Statement on the ACC’s Removal of Core Issues Trust from Membership
The Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity (hereafter referred to as the Alliance) is compelled to express in the strongest terms our consternation at the Association of Christian Counsellor’s (ACC) recent decision to remove Core Issues Trust (CIT) from their organizational membership.
“The semantics of duplicity”: Core Issues
In disallowing witnesses to be cross-examined and by ignoring both controversy about categorical notions of human sexuality (which the Royal College of Psychiatrists recently admitted are not fixed nor immutable), and inconsistencies in Boris Johnson’s witness statements, Justice Lang has confirmed today that the British establishment is no longer a guardian of freedom of
How evidence, rights, freedoms and conscience are trampled through view-point discrimination under the UK’s aggressive secular state.
on-going media reports indicate that the UK government is considering criminalising professionals offering help to clients wanting to end homosexual feelings and behaviours. Already an effective ban is in place on such support through the country’s leading mental health organisations against their members responding to such client requests. Those groups motivated by orthodox Christian values with regard to human sexuality to help such people are not exempt from this effective ban.
Truth is stranger than it used to be: when ‘puffing’ isn’t lying
Lord Justice Sullivan yesterday dismissed Core Issues Trust’s application to appeal, claiming that Mrs Justice Lang’s inquiry in the London Bus Case was satisfactory and appropriate. According to Lord Justice Sullivan, Core Issues Trust is simply aggrieved at her findings. In reality, the rights of ex-gay persons have again been trampled by establishment judges.
Judgements
The most important legal points achieved so far Court proceedings reveal Judges' observations: the inconsistencies in TFL’s application of its own procedures and by-laws in banning the CIT advert,...
Appeal June 2015
Court Blocks Appeal of 'Banned Bus Ad' Case “The case has shown clearly that British officialdom has no regard for the rights of ordinary men and women whose identity is “ex-gay” and whose practice...
Irish Referendum on Gay Marriage 26th May, 2015
Core Issues Trust offers its gratitude to the many thousands of citizens who voted against changing the Irish Constitution to replace marriage as the union between one man and one woman for life, with a new concept which takes no account of the sex of the marriage partners.
As Requested by Pink News: Statement from Core Issues Trust
Banning therapeutic support for those who experience homosexual behaviours and feelings but who wish to reduce these because of prioritising marriage to opposite sex partners is the antithesis of a conservative agenda. Such therapeutic support is not offered as a ’treatment’ or as a ‘cure’ any more than experiencing homosexual feelings is a ‘disease’.
Reminder of the Issues with the ACC’s ban of therapeutic support for those seeking to change sexual patterning
Its important to review the reasons why we think it is a mistake for Christian Counsellors to support the secularisation process through the ACC’s new position