[Graham]

Originally Posted by dezzo

I don't think banks etc. should decide who is and who isn't allowed to hold an account.

Err, banks are businesses and are free to choose who can or cannot have an account with them. They don't have to justify their reasoning.
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Originally Posted by Pierre

I trust they will not be letting any Islamic groups open an account with them also? As they too oppose homosexuality.

Not all Islamic groups hold to the strict interpretation of the Koran, just as many Christian groups don't consider homosexuality to be an abomination either.
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Originally Posted by andyl

Christian Voice's response: http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Press/press001.html

"Stephen Green retorted: †œOf course we make †˜discriminatory pronouncements on grounds of sexual orientationââ ¡Ã‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢. We have been criticising homosexual rights ever since we started eleven years ago.

Ah, now this puts a slightly different complexion on matters. If they want to object to homosexuality, that's their business, but when they say that others should be *denied* rights because *they* don't like it, that's another matter entirely.

We told the Co-op bank when we switched to them three years ago that we were a voice for Biblical values and that we promote traditional family life. They raised no problem with that at all, and at no time did they tell us about their militant pro-homosexuality."

"Militant pro-homosexuality"? Oh dear, now they're getting a bit desperate! And just because they say "we are a voice for Biblical values and promote traditional family life" doesn't mean that they said: "we think that *you* shouldn't treat these people the same as everyone else because *we* don't like what they do".

IMO in this case the Co-op did the right thing.
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Originally Posted by danielf

WTF????

I don't know whether to or