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The Kenya Project
Youth for Life is a community organisation based in Athi River, near Nairobi. Kenya. It works with disadvantaged young people in a holistic way, assisting with education, health, relief of poverty,...
Conference on Relationships and Sex Education
Christians came together in London on Saturday to hear concerns about the harmful sex education being taught to teenagers and young children in British schools. The conference, organised by...
Protecting Competent Professional Guidance and Therapeutic Care for Unwanted Sexual Feelings
In the United Kingdom, it is now no longer possible as a psychotherapist to retain professional membership of any Professional Mental Health Body with integrity, without affirming the ideological view that homosexuality, for example, is inborn and unchangeable. Even the Association of Christian Counsellors (ACC), under the leadership of the Professional Standards Authority (PSA for Health and Social Care) now prohibits therapeutic practice that allows its members to assist clients to move away from unwanted homosexual practices and feelings.
When the Scientific Establishment promotes ideology above evidence: Who would Galileo support?
The professional mental health bodies in the UK permit therapists to assist clients towards achievement of desired life goals whose attendant risks range from relatively minor (a person nervous at having to make a speech) to potentially serious (a person seeking sex-change surgery) – with one exception: …
Speaking Up and Speaking Out: What Mr Blair Didn’t Tell the Nation
The gay lobby has much to thank the Labour Party for: repeal of Section 28, lowering of the age of consent for gay sex and the Sexual Orientation Regulations. More recently Mr Blair has confirmed that he “strongly supports the Prime Minister’s proposal” for imposition of gay marriage by the coalition government. His legacy has helped shape the views of Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Miliband.
Prayer Alert: Critical meeting over banning of Christian counsellors
Please pray for Dr Mike Davidson, Director of Core Issues Trust (CIT), who is attending a critical meeting of the professional body for Christian counsellors, to appeal against its decision to ban CIT and individual therapists from offering help to men and women with unwanted same-sex attraction.
Ex-Gay Christian Counsellor Hounded Out by Psychotherapist Associations
On the basis of just two BBC radio interviews and no complaints from either his clients or his qualified supervisors, the British Psychodrama Association (BPA) under the direction of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) has this week removed former homosexual Dr Mike Davidson from the psychotherapists’ register of trainee professional membership.
Viewpoint Discrimination: The UK governments’ determination to disallow contrary views around the discredited idea that sexual preference in inborn.
Viewpoint discrimination, and the favouring of one side of an argument, in the year when the Royal College of Psychiatrists have conceded that homosexuality is not genetic, is discrimination of the clearest order and a violation of both public office and purse…
OSCE 2014-2015
Plenary Session Interventions: DATE: 29th September, 2015. Working Session 121. Specifically selected topic: Combating hate crimes and ensuring effective protection against discrimination 2. ...
Not ‘What’s in a name? but ‘What’s in the substance?’
Mike Davidson, Dermot O’Callaghan "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet" Wm. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet There’s no...
What the Research Says
“‘What the Research Does and Does Not Say ...’ should be required reading for mental health providers, physicians, client/patient advocates, legislative and judicial bodies involved in matters...
Statement on behalf of CORE ISSUES TRUST
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 speech nor of conscience.
High Court (Remitted Case)
High Court, London July 2014 “At no point in the extensive Mayoral pre-election media coverage capturing the bus campaign–except when a legal challenge was launched more recently - did Mr Johnson...
Marking the growth of intolerance towards the religious orthodox in the United Kingdom who reject state collusion with gay advocacy ideologies which threaten personal and religious autonomy and freedo
This ongoing case is illustrative of growing intolerance and inequity within the UK, including its judiciary, towards individuals and groups who in the main are religious, and who do not support state complicity in gay advocacy agendas.