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Angus Cameron
Angus Cameron received £5,500 in damages, plus £9,400 in legal costs, from Police Scotland after he was wrongfully arrested while street preaching in Glasgow.
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‘Susan’ v Gateshead school
Christian parent governor ‘Susan’ was dismissed for raising concerns with the trans-affirming sex ed policy at her children’s primary school.
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Kenneth Ferguson and Stirling Free Church
Kenneth Ferguson, Stirling Free Church (SFC), and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) have all been successful in their separate legal actions against a multimillion-pound charitable trust for discriminating against them on grounds of religious belief.
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Cornerstone Fostering and Adoption
In 2019 Cornerstone’s fostering service was downgraded from “Good” to “Requires Improvement”, threatening its reputation and continued existence as a Christian charity.
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Dale Mcalpine
Dale was paid £4,000 plus costs from Cumbria Police in November 2019 in settlement after pursuing a claim for being wrongfully arrested and detained for six hours in July 2018.
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Ashers Baking Company
The McArthur family own and run Ashers bakery. They were pursued through the courts by the taxpayer-funded Equality Commission for Northern Ireland when they turned down an order for a same-sex marriage campaign cake because it conflicted with their Christian belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Named Person scheme judicial review
On 19 February 2014, the Scottish Parliament decided that every child in Scotland should have a ‘named person’ – a state official tasked with looking after their ‘wellbeing’, defined as “happiness”.
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John Craven
John was wrongfully arrested by police and held in custody for over 19 hours. He received £13,000 compensation for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and breach of his human rights.
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Peter & Hazelmary Bull
A same-sex couple sued Mr and Mrs Bull because the Bulls’ B&B only allowed married couples to share a double bed. The Bulls based the policy upon their Christian beliefs about marriage and applied it equally to heterosexuals and homosexuals.
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Lillian Ladele
Lillian Ladele was a marriage registrar at Islington Borough Council. She was forced out of her job because of her Christian beliefs about marriage and her conscientious objection to same-sex civil partnerships.
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Adrian Smith
Adrian worked as a housing manager at Trafford Housing Trust (THT) in Manchester. He said gay weddings in churches would be “an equality too far”. He made the remark outside work time using his own computer on his personal Facebook page, which was not accessible to the general public. Yet managers saw fit to demote him and slash his salary by 40 per cent.
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Bideford Council
In 2012, the National Secular Society and a local atheist ex-councillor sued Bideford Town Council in Devon over its practice of praying at the start of council meetings – a practice understood to date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth the First.
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Ben & Sharon Vogelenzang
The Vogelenzangs were put on trial in a criminal court because they criticised Islam during a discussion about religion with a Muslim lady.
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