A Christian charity which claims to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction has said that leading British bank Barclays is axing its company bank account after pressure was put on them to deny the group financial services.
The Core Issues Trust has come under increased scrutiny over recent
weeks as the Government pledges to ban 'conversion therapy'.
Mike Davidson, the founder of the Core Issues Trust, told Premier: "On Monday the 20th, I received two letters from Barclays Bank saying that they would be closing our accounts on the 14th of September in accordance with their customer agreement. I then wrote to them and ask them for an explanation. And they pointed me to a clause in their customer agreement statement, which simply says that either party can terminate the account. So they are giving us no reason."Â
Davidson added that Barclays ranks highly on the Stonewall Employers list, which is compiled by the Workplace Equality Index – the UK's leading benchmarking tool [...]
What is ConversionTherapy? Conversion therapy is the practice of trying to change an individual's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual using psychological, physical, or spiritual interventions. There is no reliable evidence that sexual orientation can be changed and medical institutions warn that
conversion therapy practices are ineffective and potentially harmful. Medical, scientific, and government organizations in the United States and United Kingdom have expressed concern over the validity, efficacy and ethics of conversion therapy. Various jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against conversion therapy.
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Conversion therapy advocates argue they respect any individuals who identify as 'gay' and do not seek change. But any person wishing to voluntarily receive support, guidance and explore changing sexual orientation should be free to do so.
What is Homosexual? Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the same sex. It also refers to a person's sense of identity
based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions.
What is LGBT? LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. Activists believed that the term gay community did not
accurately represent all those to whom it referred. The initialism has become adopted into the mainstream media as an umbrella term for use when labeling topics pertaining to sexuality and gender identity.
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