A British High Court judge has ruled that Christian beliefs have no standing in law because they are "necessarily subjective" and "incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence". Lord Justice John Grant McKenzie Laws made the declaration last week in throwing out a defamation suit by Christian relationship counselor who refused to offer sex therapy to gay couples, Huffington Post/RNS.
Gary McFarlane protested that he was fired because offering sex therapy to same-gender couples violates his Christian principles.
But Justice Laws said "religious faith is necessarily subjective, being incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence."
He added that to use the law to protect "a position held purely on religious grounds cannot therefore be justified."
No religious belief, said the judge, can be protected under the law "however long its tradition, however rich its culture."
Laws also dismissed as "misplaced" and "mistaken" former archbishop of Canterbury George Carey's warning that a wave of discrimination against Christians threatens "civil war" in Britain.
Carey described the High Court ruling as "deeply worrying," heralding "a 'secular state' rather than a 'neutral' one."
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