Many people today are unaware that the high moral value still ascribed to human life is a consequence of the Christian worldview and its influence on Western civilisation. Of course, someone does not need to be a Christian to be pro-life any more than you must be a Christian to know that robbing someone is morally wrong. The Christian view better grounds the pro-life view but moral knowledge is available to all of us because God has given us all a moral faculty.

The wordy preamble to the same motion stated, in part, that "Misogyny, transphobia, racism and biphobia are often present in LGBT+ societies. This is unfortunately more likely to occur when the society is dominated by white cis gay men." ("Cis gay men" refers to biological males who identify as male.)

The legal filing demonstrates a visceral hatred not only toward these therapies but also toward people who don't want to act on their same-sex attractions, and want to minimize or perhaps even change them. The legal filing aims to take away the freedom, civil rights, and human rights of people who desire to engage in therapies rather than in same-sex relationships. The SPLC tactic is to harass organizations that offer therapy with which they do not agree.

Invariably, the speakers were Christian, with the debate framed in such a way as to make Christians and anyone who disagreed with same-sex marriage look like religious bigots. I was asked by one producer to debate the issue on a local BBC radio station, and when the producer understood that my arguments were purely secular -- about the effect on children and the common good -- and that I wasn't going to say something along the lines of "It's against God's law" -- I was dropped.