From here:

A Christian organisation has been ditched by a national charity for offering to pray for people with debt problems.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has been forced to leave AdviceUK, an umbrella group representing the interests of thousands of advice workers, after it was judged that praying was ‘incompatible’ with membership.

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Yesterday, Steve Johnson, chief executive of AdviceUK, described the offer of prayer by CAP as an ‘emotional fee’. Asked to explain what he meant, Mr Johnson replied that CAP was effectively expecting clients to ‘pay’ for their advice by agreeing to pray with the counsellors. ‘Advisers must not offer or impose their values,’ he added.

How is a debt counsellor supposed to counsel without imposing at least some  values?

Counsellors wouldn’t be debt counsellors unless they thought being debt free is better than being debt ridden. This is a “value”; if the counsellors give advice on reducing debt they are imposing a value. Going by the rules of AdviceUK, all debt counsellors should be disqualified as counsellors unless they are also willing to counsel people to increase their debt. Absurd? Of course it is, but so is the ban on prayer.

AdviceUK is imposing its values on who can counsel and who can’t: one of the values is anti-Christian bigotry.