Suspended and Sent for 'Equality Training'- Christian Magistrate Who Said: Adopted Child Needs..

The Mail on Sunday (UK) ^ | 1/17/15 | Martin Beckford and Jonathon Petre

[marshmallow]

*Richard Page made the comment while speaking in private with colleagues
*The magistrate was reported to watchdogs and has been disciplined
*He said he thought it was better for a child to be part of a traditional family
*The 68-year-old has been found guilty of 'serious misconduct' over claim
*He has been suspended and told he must attend a racial equality course
*Mr Page said he felt 'tremendous pressure' not to express his beliefs

A Christian magistrate has been disciplined by a Tory Cabinet Minister for expressing the belief that children should be raised by both a mother and a father.

Richard Page told colleagues behind closed doors during an adoption case that he thought it would be better for a child to be brought up in a traditional family rather than by a gay couple.

He was shocked a week later when he found he had been reported to the judges’ watchdog for alleged prejudice, and was suspended from sitting on family court cases.

Mr Page, an experienced NHS manager, has now been found guilty of serious misconduct by Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling – who previously spoke in support of a Christian couple who turned away a gay couple from their B&B.

He has also been ordered to go on an equality course before he is allowed back in the courtroom.

[marshmallow]

"Equality training"....the modern Western equivalent of the communist "re-education camp".

Welcome to the gulag, citizen.

[lee martell]

Yet they can’t understand why the total population of that city is shrinking so quickly - except, of course for muslim immigrants.

[Slyfox]

One word when being forced to attend "Equality training" - earplugs.

[armydawg505]

Great Britain has gone through the looking glass. Where is Winston Churchill when they need him????????

[SWAMPSNIPER]

“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.”

CHARLES DICKENS, Oliver Twist

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I would tell them to take their “equality training” and shove it up their momma’s behind.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

England has turned into one big bunghole of a country.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Perhaps he should have not directly said anything, merely pointed out the facts and figures along with sources, that show that children living in single sex ‘families’ do more poorly in school, have less success in their work and personal lives, etc. It is much harder for the (not at all) Conservatives and other socialist ilk to attack facts as being ‘prejudiced’. The secret is to get the lefties to ADMIT the facts, rather than spouting their lies.

GO UKIP!

[petenmi]

Je suis Charlie....never mind!

[heye2monn]

England (except for Muslims) is a highly secular, drunken decadent Rome of the 21st century. Churches are emptying out. England is a France-in-waiting.

[aquila48]

Do you think he would have fared any better here?