Apologies to Winston Smith

Stories of suppression in England should cause a shiver | Andrée Seu

Illustration by Krieg Barrie

Caroline Petrie, a Christian community nurse from Somerset, England, who carries out home visits, has been reinstated, which is a point for our side. She had offered to pray for a patient and was suspended without pay by the North Somerset National Health Service Trust for failing to show "personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity."

David Brooker of Southampton, England, a Christian worker for a housing services group, received on March 30 a formal notice of suspension for "gross misconduct" against the organization's Culture and Diversity Code of Conduct. The citation alleges that "whilst on shift with a female colleague, you seriously breached ECHG's Code of conduct by promoting your religious views which contained discriminatory comments regarding a person's sexual orientation."

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