Our guide to the conversion therapy consultation is here! Click on the image below to download the Let Us Pray guide to responding to the UK consultation on conversion therapy We’d like to ask you to do three things: 1. Pray2. Respond to the consultation3. Forward a link to this page to Christian friends who share… Continue reading How to respond to the UK Government consultation on conversion therapy
Author: Simon Calvert
The Pernicious Power of Prayer
These activists from the aggressively liberal wing of the church want laws – criminal laws no less – to punish those who hold different views from them.
Criminalising Christians
This article first appeared in The Critic on 30 October 2021 Activists demand the most religiously repressive law the UK has seen in centuries The idea of inflicting electro-shock treatment on gay people to try to change their sexuality is so repugnant that no rational or decent person would defend it. That’s what most of… Continue reading Criminalising Christians
Activists demand repressive prayer ban as UK Govt says prayer and religious teaching “will not constitute conversion therapy”
A Government consultation paper on banning conversion therapy, released in the last hour, repeatedly pledges to protect religious freedom, frustrating activists who are lobbying for a repressive anti-religious ban. Let Us Pray welcomed the pledge, but warned that the proposals are confusing and lack detail. The consultation document states: The policy approach set out below… Continue reading Activists demand repressive prayer ban as UK Govt says prayer and religious teaching “will not constitute conversion therapy”
Govt pledge not to ban prayer in ‘conversion therapy’ ban is welcome, but “the devil will be in the detail”
The Let Us Pray campaign has welcomed the UK Government’s pledge that its ban on so-called conversion therapy will target coercive pseudo-therapies and will not outlaw prayer and the ordinary work of churches. But the new campaign, launched this week, warned that the legislation will have to be very carefully crafted to fulfil this pledge.… Continue reading Govt pledge not to ban prayer in ‘conversion therapy’ ban is welcome, but “the devil will be in the detail”
Hello to our first 1,000 supporters!
We here at Let Us Pray have been really encouraged by the messages of support we’ve received since our official launch on Tuesday. We’re especially delighted that nearly 1,000 people have signed up to support our campaign in just two days. (You, dear reader, can do the same by hitting the “join the campaign” button… Continue reading Hello to our first 1,000 supporters!
Welcome to the Let Us Pray campaign
Do you think praying should ever be a crime? Most people would say ‘no’. Whatever we might think of someone else’s beliefs, calling for people to be locked up is pretty extreme. The Let Us Pray campaign is here to defend the ordinary work of churches from an excessively broad ‘conversion therapy’ ban that could… Continue reading Welcome to the Let Us Pray campaign