UK church sues city council for cancelling 3-day conference over speaker’s views on homosexuality
Scottish law firm Lindsays is acting on behalf of the church and argues that the council's actions are in breach of the European Convention on Human RIghts as well as UK equality law.
Mr Owen, from Destiny, said: "We understand that this is a fairly clear-cut breach of the freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and the freedom of expression, enshrined in ECHR.
"Under the Equality Act 2010 the City of Edinburgh Council is also discriminating on the grounds of religious belief.