Changing Attitude Ireland Update, October 2011

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CAI statement on grants awarded

Changing Attitude Ireland is a voluntary organisation which received grants of £1,000 and £2,365 in 2008 from Northern Ireland’s OFMDFM and Belfast City Council respectively. Church groups are eligible for public funding, provided they meet the relevant criteria and the stringent conditions that apply. The two applications from Changing Attitude Ireland met these criteria and conditions. [Continue Reading]

Irish Times: Ban on church youth work for gay man criticised

THE BANNING of an openly gay man from volunteering for work with youth groups at Methodist and Church of Ireland churches in Ballinamallard, Co Fermanagh, has been criticised by the Church of Ireland pro-gay Changing Attitude Ireland group. [Continue Reading]

Belfast News Letter: Public cash for CoI lobbyists

ONE of the main groups in the Church of Ireland’s debate about whether it should accept clergy in same-sex partnerships has received thousand of pounds of public funds. Documents released to the News Letter under the Freedom of Information Act show that money went from the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) and Belfast City Council to the lobby group Changing Attitude Ireland. [Continue Reading]