
A National Health Service Trust has ordered a Christian student therapist to undergo education on how Christianity is racist. Amy Gallagher, 33, alleges she had to attend a lecture on racism in which it was alleged Christianity was part of spreading whiteness, a disease that mustn be eradicted. The UK woman is considering suing the NHS for violating her rights.
NHS course text ‘linked Bible to racism’ | News
From www.thetimes.co.uk
2022-01-23 20:30:00
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A Christian student therapist is considering legal action against an NHS trust, alleging that she was asked to watch lectures and read texts linking her religion to racism.
Amy Gallagher, 33, was studying on a two-year part-time course to complete her training as a psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic in London, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
She told The Mail on Sunday that in a lecture on race and racism, Dr Anne Aiyegbusi, a forensic psychoanalyist, “spoke negatively about Christianity, while no other religions were mentioned”. Gallagher said it was also recommended that she watch an online seminar called Whiteness: A Problem for Our Time, which examined “’white privilege and white fragility”.
It is understood that this seminar was part of