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Response to National Secular Society Campaign
Core Issues Trust has today responded to the National Secular Society’s (NSS) campaingn to remove charitable status from faith groups which promote advancement of religion as a principal basis of their mission. This follows correspondence between the NSS and The Belfast Telegraph reported in various articles
CIT Releases 2020 Safeguarding Document
Core Issues Trust has released its 2020 Safeguarding document in the belief that Preventative Safeguarding is vital for us as an organisation. We recognise the need to also have in place robust policies touching recruitment, volunteering and screening, and to ensure we develop a suitable code of conduct for all our associates and association
2014 Statements
1. 3rd December 2014 The Counsellors and Psychotherapists (Regulation) Bill 2014-2015 2. 30th July 2014 High Court Judgement 3. 10th June 2014 Bishop Michael Burrows to debate Anglican view of human...
UK Professional Mental Health Bodies
"In foregrounding controversy about so called ‘conversion’, ‘reparative’ or ‘gay cure’ approaches, the memorandum obscures the real issue: the freedom and rights of autonomous individuals to...
Association of Christian Counsellors (ACC)
What are the essential issues of dispute? In a statement to its members in December 2012, the Association of Christian Counsellors clearly discussed the matter of counselling persons with unwanted...
Tony Compolo Capitulates to Gay Marriage Confusion : “For the Record”
Tony and Peggy Campolo’s embrace and normalisation of homosexual practice within the Christian church aligns the couple with growing confusion in Western Christian culture with respect to sexual ethics. Britons will not be surprised to see this development following his involvement with Steve Chalke, Vicky Beeching and Bishop Alan Williams following the Oasis Conferencei earlier this year.
Comment on the NCLR submission to the 53 rd Convention against Torture and Other Cruel , Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
A Californian based law firm, the National Centre for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has submitted documentary information1 to the United Nations treaty Committee Against Torture, claiming that by failing to outlaw the practice of ‘Conversion Therapy,’ America violates its compliance with the Convention Against Torture to which it is a signatory.
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. ...