A CHRISTIAN nursery nurse has claimed she was unfairly dismissed from her job for sharing her religious views on homosexuality.
Sarah Mbuyi, 30, a former employee at Newpark Childcare in Highbury, London, said that a lesbian colleague would regularly engage her in conversation about the Christian faith and in January 2014 raised the subject of biblical studies of homosexuality and complained that she was unhappy that she couldn’t marry her partner because of the church and that she thought God condoned homosexuality.
Mbuyi said: “When I said ‘no God does not condone the practice of homosexuality, but does love you and says you should come to Him as you are’, she became emotional and went off to report me to my manager.”
Following a disciplinary hearing held about the incident, where her colleague claimed that Mbuyi had raised the issue of homosexuality on several occasions, she was instantly dismissed for gross misconduct.
Mbuyi believes she was targeted because of her Christian faith. She said: “Time and again my colleague initiated conversations to probe me about my faith, especially about homosexuality.
“I never ever condemned her or accused her but when she asked me directly what I believed, I was open about sharing the Bible’s teaching that homosexual sex (not homosexual people) is wrong.
“It’s clear that this offended her and she was determined to get me sacked, simply because I expressed traditional Christian beliefs.”
Mbuyi, who now works at another nursery, is being represented by The Christian Legal Centre (CLC).
Andrea Williams, barrister and Chief Executive of CLC, stated: “Sarah’s case demonstrates the confusion we’re experiencing in current times. David Cameron has given public recognition of the enormous positive impact that Jesus Christ has had on our nation but he wants to mould Christianity to his political agenda.
“History shows that Christianity is greater than any political agenda.”
According to Williams, “David Cameron has ignored the concerns of the Christian community by driving through same-sex ‘marriage’. Any dissent in the public space, in the workplace, to the new prevailing orthodoxy means punishment as Sarah is experiencing.”
She concluded: “The Christian Legal Centre is representing Sarah Mbuyi as the latest in a line of Christians who are being threatened by a movement to repress Christians from living out a genuine expression of their faith in a country which once led the world in freedom and justice.” The Voice
