A Christian ex-magistrate has begun an appeal after being denied the right to refuse to place children for adoption with homosexual couples.
Andrew McClintock was forced to resign in 2005 after being told that he would not be allowed to avoid homosexual adoption cases, in which he felt vulnerable children would be escaping "one kind of harm only to face another hazard".
Having lost an initial hearing at an employment tribunal in Sheffield earlier this year, Mr McClintock is now taking his case against the Department for Constitutional Affairs to appeal in London.
