[4] The group does not report numbers of staff, volunteers or members with only the former director, Colin Hart, listed as a representative.

The Christian Institute's activities was criticized by The Charity Commission in 2001, for breaching rules limiting overt political campaigning by charities, by "publishing a 100-page report, Homosexuality and Young People (1998), which argued against reforming anti-homosexual law from a purely political viewpoint.

[11] In 2004, the CI funded a full-page newspaper advertisement in The Times in support of a controversial amendment to the Civil Partnership Bill.

In response to the advertisement, Members of Parliament questioned the CI's overt political campaigning in light of its charitable status.

Ladele had refused to process the paperwork associated with civil partnerships on religious grounds, and following complaints from other staff she was disciplined under the Council's Fairness for All policy.

[23] NO2NP argued that this would "[undermine] parents and permits the state unlimited access to pry into the privacy of families in their homes" and would stretch child protection resources.