The Christian Legal Centre (CLC) is a legal organization which was set up in December 2007 to provide legal support for Christians in the United Kingdom and lobby on their behalf. Since its inception, the CLC has provided legal support in a number of high-profile cases in the UK.

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  • The Christian Legal Centre (CLC) is a legal organization which was set up in December 2007 to provide legal support for Christians in the United Kingdom and lobby on their behalf. Since its inception, the CLC has provided legal support in a number of high-profile cases in the UK. Notable examples include: Emily Mapfuwa, a Christian who launched a private prosecution against the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead for exhibiting a statue by Terence Koh depicting Jesus with an erection. In a BBC Essex radio interview, Michael Phillips (a solicitor working for CLC who is also a member of The Lawyers Christian Fellowship) admitted that Ms Mapfuwa had never actually visited the exhibition. In fact she lives over 250 miles away in Brentwood, Essex. The case was eventually dismissed by the Crown Prosecution Service. Eunice and Owen Johns, a couple whose application to become foster parents was turned down by Derby City Council because they said they would be unable to tell a child that homosexuality is acceptable. The council later retracted its position when lawyers from the CLC threatened to apply for a judicial review of the refusal. Hybrid embryo research: The CLC and Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) were refused permission to apply for a judicial review to overturn the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's decision to allow laboratory testing of hybrid embryos. Mrs Justice Dobbs at the High Court in London ruled that the application was "totally without merit", and ordered the CLC to pay costs amounting to some £20,000. Gary McFarlane, a counsellor for Relate (a relationship support charity) who was sacked for refusing to offer counselling and therapy to same-sex couples. The charity admitted to a charge of wrongful dismissal, conceding that he should have been served notice instead of being fired immediately for 'gross misconduct'. Further claims of unfair dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of religion were dismissed. Graham Cogman, a police constable from Norfolk who was sacked for sending emails to colleagues in which he quoted bible passages condemning homosexuality and forwarded details of a group that offered to "cure" homosexuals. Mr Cogman plans to appeal at an employment tribunal in 2009, funded by the CLC.
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  • The Christian Legal Centre (CLC) is a legal organization which was set up in December 2007 to provide legal support for Christians in the United Kingdom and lobby on their behalf. Since its inception, the CLC has provided legal support in a number of high-profile cases in the UK.
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