Bureaucrats in Brussels think British churches have too much freedom to insist that their staff’s sexual conduct is in keeping with the Bible and are demanding a change to UK law.

Officials at the European Commission have published a legal document, called a “reasoned opinion”, arguing that the UK Government needs to narrow the religious liberty safeguard in its employment laws.

They suggest that UK law is not in keeping with an EU employment directive issued in 2000.

But in 2004 the High Court ruled that the directive has been properly implemented in the UK and the religious liberty safeguard is legally valid.

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• Filed under Europe, Scottish Christian News Monitor, Sexuality, Social Policy.