BBC wrote: Faith rally over gay rights bill
Religious groups are to protest outside Parliament in an attempt to halt legislation banning discrimination against lesbians and gay men.
Organisers say the Sexual Orientation Regulations would limit their right to live according to religious beliefs.
In the House of Lords, peers are to debate a motion calling for the regulations, already in force in Northern Ireland, to be annulled.
Outside, Christians, Jews and Muslims will gather for a torch-lit protest.
The rally is to be held in Old Palace Yard opposite the St Stephen's entrance to the House of Lords, Westminster from 1730 GMT to 2000 GMT. It is due to start when the Lords debate the motion.
Several thousand people are expected to take part.
The legislation would ban discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services on the basis of sexuality.
Hotels could be prosecuted for refusing to provide rooms for gay couples and parishes obliged to rent out halls for gay wedding receptions.
Equally, gay bars would not be able to ban straight couples.
Thomas Cordrey, barrister and public policy analyst with the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, said: "The debate in the Lords is a signal to the government of the need to acknowledge these regulations do not currently strike the correct balance between two competing rights.
"Christians have no desire to discriminate unjustly on the grounds of sexual orientation, but they cannot and must not be forced to actively condone and promote sexual practices which the Bible teaches are wrong.
"It is a fundamental matter of freedom of conscience," Mr Cordrey said.
Rally organiser Ade Omooba said: "Senior lawyers have expressed the view that unless these regulations are amended, they will outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, only to replace it with discrimination on the grounds of religion."
Under the new regulations, protestors say the right to religious belief could be discriminated against in the following examples:
* A Christian, Jewish or Muslim printer could be legally forced to print a flyer for a gay night club or gay pride march and would be denied the right to refuse carry out the work as a matter of religious conscience.
* A Christian, Jewish or Muslim teacher could be breaking the law if they seek to promote heterosexual marriage instead of homosexual civil partnership - even if homosexuality is at odds with the teacher's faith
* A Christian, Jewish or Muslim IT consultant could be forced to build a website promoting gay rights.
But gay rights group OutRage! accused religious leaders of "scaremongering, lies and hypocrisy".
Peter Tatchell told BBC News "These regulations do not legalise, or illegalise, people's beliefs.
"They do not impinge on what people believe, on opinions they express, on attitudes or values.
"People are still free to hold their beliefs, to live their lives according to their own morality and... their own religious beliefs. The law proposed does not change that one iota.
"All it does is extend to lesbian and gay people the same protection against discrimination as is already existing to protect women, black people and Christians, Jews, Muslims and other people of faith."
Isn't it just heart warming to see the assorted branches of the Abrahamic faiths setting aside their differences for once and united in demanding their right to continue to discriminate against a minority they've enthusiastically persecuted for millenia.
That made me laugh my ass off. "Forced"? Well if you are contracted to make a gay website, go and fucking quit! 
