Thread by @AdamWagner1

Agree this is an interesting case which shows in practice how difficult it now is for a religious organisation to discriminate against homosexual people - the direction of travel in the past decade's case law has been clear

https://twitter.com/JasonBraier/status/1441414839654567938

This is an important para - the wider point (which the European Court of Human Rights has been making for years) is that it's difficult to imagine any justified discrimination against homosexuals even where religious doctrine authorises it

Also

The judgment wasn't a slam dunk approval of the first instance judgment - the Court of Appeal agreed that some of the reasoning was insufficient, but it still reached the same conclusion

I think this is what is going to end up happening in trans rights cases if they end up in Strasbourg - if a case raises a conflict with religious or gender critical beliefs, or 'compelled speech', though the latter is the most untested.