News & Commentary

The Beginning of the End – The meaning of sex and gender based rights in the UK

Mark Bratton takes us through the milestones in the ongoing war against gender identity ideology and the misplaced legal and social aspirations of transactivist individuals and organisations. When LGB Christians was launched in 2023, the fight against gender identity ideology seemed as bleak as the retreat from Dunkirk in 1940. The idea that people could change their sex or that gender could be separate from sex was deeply rooted in major institutions such as the BBC, civil service, most universities, and even Parliament.

Gender Ideology and Safeguarding in the Church of England

When a child is told that an adult or older teenager in a church situation is a woman or girl, when he is clearly male, they will question their own judgement in other situations. The most rigorous and restricting safeguarding protocols possible in a church environment will not protect a child in another environment, such as a swimming pool changing room. 

Forced Out of Our Church

As LGB Christians becomes more widely known we are receiving unsolicted true life accounts of how ordinary churchgoers are finding deeply embedded homophobia leads to threats, harassment, and expulsion. The most recent example, sent by ‘Elliot and Thomas’,  a gay couple of 40 years, is an absolute disgrace and a flagrant example of discrimination and ...

Deeply divided Anglican Church will not bless same-sex couples after all

Niles Posthumus interviews Richard Kirker and Revd Charlie Bączyk-Bell for Trouw, a Dutch newspaper about the latest stemate in a 60 year long battle for same-sex marriage/blessings. You can visit the original article (although there is a paywall) here: https://www.trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/frustratie-bij-homoseksuele-anglicanen-hun-kerk-gaat-homostellen-toch-niet-inzegenen~b3495af5/ DOWNLOAD A PDF COPY OF THE ARTICLE – Dutch Newspaper Trouw March 2026 Dutch Newspaper ...

LGBC Supporter Philomena Heffernan Writes to The Tablet

‘Authentic human dignity is achieved not by affirming every self-description as ontological truth, but by recognising each person’s worth within the reality of creation.’ An excellent letter in The Tablet taking issue with two vital points in their Editorial ‘New Guidance’ this week. Thank you Philomena Heffernan for helping enlighten readers with lucid clarity. Letter ...

Letter to The Church Times – Inclusive Christian Communities?

Letter to Church Times: ‘Are trans and women’s rights opposed?

LGB Christians’ Caroline Watson wrote to The Church Times in response to the article ‘Are trans and women’s rights opposed?’ by Paul Valley

Church Times

Oxford University students advised which churches are ‘safe’ for LGBTQ+ peers

Francis Martin The University’s LGBTQ+ Society’s Safe Churches Team has compiled a report on 30 churches in the city, categorising each on a five-point scale according to how inclusive it is judged to be and how honest the church leadership are about their stance.

Daily Sceptic

Why I Blew Up My Life to Campaign Against Gender Identity Ideology

Helen Joyce This is the text of a speech Dr. Helen Joyce gave at Ireland Uncensored, a one-day conference in Dublin on September 16th to rally opposition to the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill, a new law that will impose more speech restrictions in Ireland than anywhere else in Europe. The ...

Spiked

The left’s dangerous embrace of cancel culture

Umut Özkırımlı The semantic history of the term ‘cancelled’ isn’t difficult to trace. It was first used in its contemporary meaning as a line in the 1991 American crime thriller, New Jack City. It reached a wider audience with an episode of VH1’s popular reality show, Love and Hip-Hop: New York, which aired on 22 December 2014 ...