arden forester

Now Christian Voice, a registered political party, is going to be banned from banking with the Co-op. BNP first, who next? Will another bank want them?

I don't agree with either's policies, but is free speech being outlawed by the banks on a proxy vote for New Labour?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4617849.stm

so what is the groups views on homosexuality

C_steam

Crucifiction?

Only a guess.

might as well be for all the information i could find on thier website

however compainies do have the right to turn away customers that would bring thier own company INTO phpbb_disripute.

its not someone that have told the bank they have to close down the accounts its the bank itsself which has decided. are you suggesting we force the bank to keep the account open isnt that going againt the banks freedoms

i find them a rather unpleasent group so much for christian values when they stop a cancer charity from recieving money or when they put peoples personal details on thier website putting whole families in danger

mkpdavies

What if they promise not to smoke?

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not the point mkpdavies

on another thread ive been told about freedoms and eveyrone should have freedom and then somone gets all upset when a bank chooses to use freedom to close an account

so i take it the freedoms part is just limited to when the freedoms agree with your own values

mkpdavies

No I agree with you on this issue. The bank has a right to say we don't want certain customers because of their character. The co-op are a very moral and issue driven organisation anyway, it doesn't surprise me at all.

There are plenty of Banks who will happily take their money.

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John Carter

Unless, of course, the company is a sole trader operating a bed and breakfast from his own home and doesn't want gays canoodling in his property.

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as far as im aware B&Bs can still turn gay couples away. there was some media attention about one i remember but it was from the angle of unfriendlyness when the B& B in question claims to be friendly and welcoming and then turning people away

Paul Birch

That would be true if everyone were at liberty to offer banking services in an open market. However, banking is now a regulated oligopoly (it shouldn't be so, but it is), a privilege offered to selected organisations supposedly in exchange for providing a common service to the public (though in reality more and more in exchange for providing a service to the state). In such a position they do not have the right to exclude customers on the basis of their religious or political beliefs; that is oppression.

If they've also been got at, maybe not.