Belfast church launches legal bid for right to sodomy ads
Sandown Free Presbyterian Church’s advertisement ran in August last year with the headline: “The word of God against sodomy.”
It appeared in an edition of News Letter ahead of the Belfast Gay Pride parade, before being banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after several members of the public complained that the advert was homophobic.
A judicial review was granted after a lawyer for Sandown claimed that the ban breached the church’s rights to freedom of religion and expression.