The Christian union at Birmingham University is taking legal action against the student guild after it froze its bank accounts and refused to allow members to book rooms and use facilities.

The Evangelical Christian Union (CU) is being penalised by the university’s student union guild for not amending its constitution to allow a guild leader on to the CU executive, and for refusing to open its membership to people of all faiths and beliefs. The guild also expressed concerns over the use of the words “men” and “women” in the constitution, which it said could be seen as excluding transsexual and transgender people.

Read the whole article here. [HT: John H]

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Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham University) writes in the areas of biblical theology and ethics, but frequently trespasses beyond these bounds. He participates in the weekly Mere Fidelity podcast, blogs at Alastair’s Adversaria, and tweets at @zugzwanged.
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  1. Stephen's avatar Stephen says:

    Pod Bhogal, who is mentioned in the report has a blog here: http://podbo.livejournal.com/ You may find updates there.
    (He also used to attend my church!)

  2. Al's avatar Al says:

    Thanks for the link, it’s very helpful.

  3. Elbert's avatar Elbert says:

    I think the solution is very easy. If they want a guild leader to be in the CU executive, than make a CU executive a guild leader.

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