In a press release the Caleb Foundation said: "This EU Directive carries with it the threat to criminalise honest, sincere and devout people who happen to believe that certain practices are morally objectionable. There are many tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland who hold these kinds of lifestyles to be sinful and offensive. That they should be coerced in law to facilitate such practices is itself morally wrong."

"The Ministerial Code under which Ministers in the Executive operate requires Ministers in the Executive to ‘operate in a way conducive to promoting good community relations and equality of treatment'. We would be interested in finding out how good ...