Assisted suicide
Campaigners for assisted suicide are stepping up their efforts. There are new legislative proposals at both Westminster and Holyrood to enable terminally ill adults to get help to kill themselves.
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15 years of the Legal Defence Fund
With over 300 people helped in 2020 alone, The Christian Institute’s Legal Defence Fund is needed just as much today as it was 15 years ago.
Conversion therapy update
The media has created a sense of crisis around conversion therapy and a ban is very likely. The Christian Institute supports protecting people from dangerous medical practices. But activists want prayer, pastoral conversations, preaching and even parenting to be caught. This is a fast-moving issue. This leaflet covers key developments since our previous briefing in November 2020.
Secular humanism
Secular humanism plays an influential role in politics, education and the media today, and is explicitly anti-Christian. But it has hijacked the name and noble legacy of historic humanism. This briefing explores the roots of secular humanism in Unitarianism, showing how recently it emerged and the danger it poses.
Scottish Election Briefing 2021
An analysis of party policies on issues of importance to Christians
Elections for the Scottish Parliament take place on 6 May 2021.
Trans: free speech update
We have excellent laws on free speech. These include the freedom to disagree on transgenderism.
Common grace
We live in a fallen world. But God’s common grace means the world is not as loveless, ugly and chaotic as it could be. The Bible teaches that God restrains evil so that God’s creation may be preserved, ordered lives can continue and ultimately that God may be glorified and the Gospel preached to all nations.
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill – Stage 2 Update
Bill has improved, but concerns remain
The Scottish Government’s original Hate Crime Bill was a major threat to free speech, including evangelism and Christian comment on sexual ethics. After a huge public backlash, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has made significant concessions. The Bill is less dangerous. But the Government still needs to go further to make sure freedom of speech and expression is not undermined.
Compulsory atheism lessons
Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Bill
There are good laws covering Religious Education in Wales. This framework is to be scrapped and replaced by arrangements which can be controlled by atheists and those personally opposed to religious faith.
Relationships and Sexuality Education
Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Bill
Kirsty Williams’s Bill abolishes all existing safeguards. It contains nothing to replace them. She has said an ‘RSE Code’ will be written, but it hasn’t been published and any such Code can be updated by future ministers.