An employee at a Christian ‘homeless' charity has been suspended for answering questions about his faith to a colleague at work.

David Booker, a Christian from Southampton, has worked for the English Churches Housing Group for almost four years. On 26 March, whilst working an evening shift, he had conversation with female colleague Fiona Vardy. Ms Vardy asked him about his faith and beliefs. During the conversation he was asked the Church's teaching on homosexuality and same-sex marriages, which Mr Booker explained. The conversation was free-flowing and Mr Booker clearly explained that he had homosexual friends and that he was not homophobic. The following day he was summoned by his employers and told that he was suspended alleging that: ‘On 26 March 09, whilst on shift with Fiona Vardy, he seriously breached ECHG's (English Churches House Group) code of conduct by promoting your religious views which contained discriminatory comments regarding a person's sexual orientation.'

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