Richard Page lost his role on the bench in 2015 after 15 years of service for stating that a child up for adoption would be better looked after by a man and a woman rather than a same-sex couple.
He was also later stopped from returning to his position as a non-executive director of the Kent and Medway NHS Trust after expressing the same opinion during a BBC interview.
The then Justice Secretary Michael Gove and Lord Thomas said his comments to the media suggested he was “biased and prejudiced against single sex adopters”.
In the second judgement given on Wednesday morning, Mr Justice Choudhury upheld the finding that LGBT people suffer disproportionately from mental health illnesses and might be dissuaded from using the trust’s services because of the high profile coverage of Mr Page’s beliefs.
Andrea Williams, director of the Christian Legal Centre who have been supporting Mr Page explained to Premier why she wasn’t surprised by the judgements “given the current climate in our nation, given the current climate in our culture and certainly in the culture of the courts”.
“There’s a reality that speaking out as a Christian, as Richard Page has done, means increasingly that we are being prohibited from the public space, prohibited from working and taking part in certain professions,” she said.
“And that’s exactly what has happened to Richard Page. He’s been pursuing…
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