Magistrate to re-appeal over gay adoption row
Topix Gay News Jan 04 08
A former magistrate who claimed unfair dismissal after he was told he could not pick and choose which adoption cases to rule on is to appeal for the second time.
In March 64-year-old Andrew McClintock's legal action against the Lord Chancellor, claiming that his Bible-influenced opinions should allow him to be excused from approving gay adoptions, was rejected by a Sheffield employment tribunal.
"Gay couples have human rights too," the tribunal said.
In October an employment appeal tribunal rejected his appeal.
Mr McClintock told the Sheffield Star that he has now lodged paperwork with the Court of Appeal. Full story...
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