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Mr Brian Kingston: Assembly records

All of Mr Brian Kingston’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.

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  5. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you. The point about faith is that not all Christians take the same position, so there needs to be tolerance of the fact that there will be difference. There are Churches and ministers and pastors who will preach that homosexuality is wrong, that it is wrong in the Bible, that there is only male and female and…

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  7. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for his intervention. I was just coming on to the points that he has made very well. I am going to take fewer interventions, because time is moving on and I am aware that others wish to speak. Obviously, someone's gender and sexuality are very significant matters in their life. If someone close to…

    Qualifying Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I will come on to your point. Clause 2 is titled "Offence of engaging in coercive conversion behaviour". What is coercive conversion behaviour? We are told, at clause 5, that that means "behaviour ... that is violent". No one will support violent behaviour. It is "behaviour ... that is threatening". It is:…

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  10. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    It is because I do not want people to be prosecuted for believing that there are only males and females, as the majority of people believe. That is what the consequence of the Bill would be, and I will come on to that. I will have to be more cautious about giving way. Let me move on. Clause 2 —.

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I want to make a general point. For young people, adolescents and teenagers, growing up is a time of confusion and change. Many of those who experience gender confusion or dysphoria find that their distress decreases over time, as they grow older and accept their natural bodies. Some people realise that their distress…

    Qualifying Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Presumably, that is in a situation where they have asked for support. I mean, how could you subject somebody to talking therapy or counselling against their will? They just would not participate I will move on. Let me say what I also said last week: no one should be subjected to attack, violence, harassment or…

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  21. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    OK. I will move on. In the modern era, there is less gender stereotyping in society. Boys and girls and men and women can choose from a much wider range of interests, professions and lifestyles than would have been the case in the past. They should not be stereotyped. Society has become more accommodating and varied.…

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  24. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I assure the Member that we are very focused on the wording in his Bill, and that is what we find problems with. He has set a very low threshold for those three new offences, which could mean that someone could reflect on what parents, teachers, youth workers, ministers, pastors — people who are trying to provide…

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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