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Church leaders write to Prime Minister urging caution over conversion practices ban

Church leaders write to Prime Minister urging caution over conversion practices ban
Matthew Roberts
ET staff writer
ET staff writer
18 July, 2024 2 min read

A group of church leaders have written to the new Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, urging him to take care as he considers a ban on conversion practices.

The letter warned of a ‘lack of religious literacy in British public life and the unwarranted hostility this can breed towards those in Bible-believing churches’.

This is evident, the letter said, in ‘the way people talk about a legislative ban on so-called conversion therapy’.

A ban on conversion therapy, also called conversion practices, could outlaw the way churches preach, pray, or pastor people in line with biblical sexual ethics.

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