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As people from all walks of life, political parties, professions and religious faiths, we the undersigned have joined together to commit ourselves to reaffirm the value and necessity of religious and civil liberty and the rights of conscience across the UK today.

We believe that religion and civil liberty must include the right to live and speak according to one's conscience privately and in the public sphere, both individually and collectively, without harassment or the fear of civil or criminal penalty.

The proposed employment provisions set out in Schedule 9, Paragraph 2, subsection 8 of the Equality Bill (the occupational requirements relating to sex, marriage and sexual orientation for the purposes of organised religion) mistakenly seeks to deny integrity and authentic practical religion by separating religious belief and observance from behaviour and denies to religious groups rights that are extended to all other organisations, to employ only those who conform to their beliefs, practices and ethos.

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• Elizabeth Schildt
• Andrew McCormick
• Lee Armstrong
• P A CHARLES
• James Davey
• David Leach
• Karen Chalk
• Elizabeth Dean
• Carrie Munro
• jonathan foster
• Yvonne Watts
• Grant Stein
• Patricia Loftus
• Ann French
• David Carmichael
• David Doran
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• Mary Lowe
• Simon Brooks
• Trevor Brooks
• Pat Brooks
• Angela Steed
• Martyn Dicken
• Paul G Clough
• Margaret Mockford
• Alan Johnson
• Roland Scales
• Julie Tranter
• Barbara M. Box
• Caner Helvaci
• Margaret Stevenson
• Joanna Burcham
• Patricia Hartley
• Elaine Davis
• Nigel Davis
• Desmond Kinloch
• Marlize Hattingh
• Sara Fotheringham
• frank duncan
• Philip Husbands
• Elaine Naughten
• Doreen Cavender
• FIONA SHELDON
• Sam Nichol
• Emma Paget
• Jane Roberts
• L.A.Townson
• Geoffrey Cavender
• Philippa Cappleman
• Rhona Donaghue
• Anne McCarthy
• jon bagley
• Harry Edwin Davies
• Derek Williams
• Maria Gomez-Ostrowski
• YOLANDA M OBRIEN
• Jeffery Throssell
• Charles Beck
• Nicholas Egan
• Flora Forbes
• E Miller
• J Miller
• Tom Edom
• Michael David Nixon
• Alan Cobham
• Avril Blaney
• Peter Hanson
• Kayleigh
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• mark strode
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• Colin M Wood
• Mr N.D. Winser
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• Christopher J. Brooks
• May Small
• Pat Mardon
• alan moorcraft
• Keith Evans
• Raymond Buchanan
• A. Amos
• Tim Brighton
• Daniel Rius
• keith bassant
• Dr Caroline Donnison
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• Ron Cartwright
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• Christina Anderson
• Alan Davies
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• Michael Davies
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• Andrew John Wilson
• Ahmad Alam
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• C Frapwell
• Elaine Coles
• Rosemary George
• Paul Ross
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• t flynn
• margaret pitcher
• Ian Kennedy
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• David Wilson
• Roland Gilmore
• Nigel John Godfrey
• Dawn L OConnell
• Jonathan Curry
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• andrew simpkin
• Karen Bryan
• DIANE HORSFALL
• Helen Williams
• G GEORGE
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• Louise Walker
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• C Pearse
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• Birute Karpavicius
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• Mr george wilson
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• C Meering
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• Victoria Talbot
• Joseph Sowerby
• Paul Possart
• Valerie Neary
• Thomas Evans
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• Simon Goodison
• Christopher Royals
• Bernard Cruikshank
• harry james
• Marjory MacLean
• Edward Tredger
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• Meggi Bowater
• Dennis Andrus
• Mark Sarl
• Michael Peters
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• George Mahoney
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• Dorothy Taylor
• Ben Holdsworth
• R Chan
• Isobel Hill-Smith
• Beian Coates
• NIgel Parker
• Rupert Butterfield
• Matthew Jones
• Laura Money
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• Laura Moorhouse
• Fernando Braz
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• tony wood
• Christine Glover
• David Brothers
• Joseph McNeely
• Omar Mayet
• Richard T Hesse
• brett crane
• Dorothy G Hesse
• John B Griffiths mbe
• Sam Jones
• Jeffrey Wade
• Annette Wade
• phillip mason
• Paul Martin-Matthews
• John Cosson
• Alf Pagden
• Ray
• D. J. Syratt
• Peter Mcauley
• gary nicol
• John Marshall
• Robert S. Nock
• James E Pennington
• Liz Bloomfield
• christina aston
• Andrew Ojok
• Rosemary Hannay
• adrian burr
• Iain Cameron
• Fred Phelps
• jan rawbone
• j rawbone
• Douglas B. Wilkinson
• S.Pearcey
• David Tucker
• John Rimmer
• Margaret Hibbit
• RICHARD McLaughlin
• J Rackley
• William & Margaret Ashpole
• Colin Burns
• Jeanne Moass
• Neil Kiley
• john cross
• ken blackwell
• Damian Warburton
• Jason Fisher
• john coleman
• Geoffrey Blyth
• Elizabeth Axon
• Roland Thomas
• Colin Naisbitt
• dominic fahey
• Gareth Payne
• James Hall
• Fiorentino Todino
• Jeremy James Gaskell
• Mike Wilkinson
• Helen Hipwell
• James Neale
• Mark Allen
• Maria Waite
• Kirsty McGhee
• Philip McCauley
• Martin Hosken
• Peter Arthur
• Andrew Milnthorpe
• Sean M. Pitcher
• Dr A I Johnson
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• andy martin
• Russell Nugent
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• Emma Collins
• Steve Hallett
• Michael Murphy
• Earl J Dunton
• Carol Lynn Smith
• Patricia Lorms
• Roland Kennington
• Kirsty Jones
• Alexander Barnes
• Simon Clark
• Claire Pacino

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