Court determining damages for persecution of Christian
A court trial is under way in the United Kingdom to determine if a Christian manager of a housing organization should be compensated for damages because his employer demoted and penalized him for stating his biblical beliefs on his private Facebook page.
According to The Christian Institute, which is representing housing administration worker Adrian Smith, the trial is expected to last two days.
Smith lost his managerial position and had his salary cut by 40 percent after his employer, Trafford Housing Trust, told him his private Facebook page posting, to which only he and his friends had access, violated its standards of conduct.
The case developed in February 2011 when Smith saw a news article titled “Gay church marriages get go ahead.”...