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How BRITAIN is turning CHRISTIANITY into a CRIME. * Daily Mail Thursday, September 7, 2006. How Is turning Christianity Into a CRIME. by Melanie Phillips AS AN
EVANGELIST IS ARRESTED FOR HANDING OUT BIBLE VERSES. HOW long will it be before Christianity becomes
illegal in This is no longer the utterly absurd and offensive
question that on first blush it would appear to be. An evangelical Christian campaigner, Stephen Green was
arrested and charged last weekend with using threatening, abusive or insulting
words or behaviour. So what was this behaviour? Merely trying peacefully to hand out leaflets at a gay
rally in LAW? Why none other than the majestic words
of the 1611 King James Bible. The problem was that they were bits of the Bible which
forbid homosexuality. The leaflets also urged homosexuals to ‘turn from their
sins and you will be saved’. But to the secular priests of the human rights culture,
the only sin is to say that homosexuality is a sin. Admittedly, Mr Green is not everyone’s cup of tea;
other Christians regard him as extreme. But our society is now so upside-down
that by doing nothing more than upholding a fundamental tenet of Christianity- he was treated
like a Criminal. And yet at the same time, the police are
still studiously refusing to act against Islamic zealots abusing British
freedom to preach hatred and incitement against the West. Prejudice. THE Bible is the moral code that underpins our
civilisation. Yet the logic of the police action against Mr Green surely
leads ultimately to the inescapable conclusion that the Bible itself is ‘hate
speech’ and must be banned. This bizarre state of affairs has arisen thanks to the
Human rights culture which automatically champions minorities against the
majority. As a result, no one can say anything disobliging about
a minority which out being accused of prejudice or discrimination. The problem for Christianity is that it holds that
homosexuality is wrong. This, however, it is no longer allowed to say because
it treats a minority practice as sinful.
So it can no longer uphold a central tenet of its own faith without being
accused of prejudice. This dilemma is currently tearing apart the - itself. But it is also turning our whole notion of JUSTICE -on its head. Author Lynette Burrows received a warning from the
Metropolitan Police merely for suggesting that gay people did not make ideal
adoptive parents. The former leader of the Muslim Council of Britain,
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, also had his collar felt by police after he said that
homosexuality was harmful. Notably in his case the matter was swiftly dropped. If
there’s one thing that terrifies our PC police even more than being called
homophobic, it’s being called Islamophobic – even though Islamic fundamentalism
poses a real threat to the human
rights of gay people. If this wasn’t all so frightening, it would be
hilarious. Christians by contrast, get very different treatment.
An elderly evangelical preacher Harry Hammond was convicted of a public order
offence after he held up a poster calling for an end to homosexuality,
lesbianism and immorality. Although he had been the victim of a physical attack when a crowd poured soil and water over
him, he alone was prosecuted. And Bullying Christianity is fast becoming a creed that dare not
speak its name. It is being written out of the national script by ideologies
seeking to hasten its disappearance. Yesterday, the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone said in
a radio interview that Local authorities and government bodies are
systematically bulling Christianity out of existence by refusing to fund
Christian voluntary groups on the grounds that to be Christian means that they
are not committed - to ‘diversity’. Thus local and central government refused to replicate
the vocational training provided by the Highfields Happy Hens Centre in
Derbyshire for young offenders and pupils excluded from school despite its
impressive record of success, simply because it was run with a clear Christian
ethos. Norfolk County Council objected to the inclusion of
the word ‘Christian’ in the constitution of Barnabas House in King’s Lynn, And the Housing Corporation the major funder of
Romford YMCA in THE ‘diversity’ agenda, in other words
, is a fig-leaf for an attack on CHRISTANITY. And to cap it all, we can no longer rely on our future
monarch to hold the line, since PRINCE CHARLES – has said that when he becomes King he will no longer
be DEFENDER
OF THE FAITH - but ‘defender of
faith’ BUT Christianity is STILL the official religion of
this COUNTRY. All its INSTITUTIONS, its HISTORY and its CULTURE are
suffused with IT; BUT ‘MINORITY RIGHTS’ are now being wielded against it
like a wrecking ball. What started as a commendable desire to ban hatred of
the gay minority has morphed into a hatred of the CHRISTIAN MAJORITY. Behaviour which was previously considered to
transgress the moral norms of the BIBLE has now instead become the norm – and
it is as biblical values that are treated as beyond the pale of acceptable
behaviour. THIS IS NO ACCIDENT. The sacred doctrine of human rights – which explicitly
sets ITSELF up as the RELIGION for a GODLESS age – is the means by which
SECULARISM is steadily attacking the CHRISTIAN roots of OUR CIVILISATION. - on the basis the religion is inherently unenlightened, prejudiced
and divisive. Christianity has been dethroned as this country’s
governing creed on the basis that equality demands equal status for minority
faiths [Including Devil worship and other cults] and secularism. As a result,
it is being marginalised as no more than a quaint cultural curiosity. Offensive It is a process before which the Church of England has
long been on its knees, going with the flow of moral and cultural collapse in
accordance with the doctrine of MULTICULTURALISM. And then wondering WHY its churches are so empty,
while those of uncompromising evangelicals such as STEPHEN
GREEN - are packed to the rafters. As a result, Christianity is being steadily removed
from the public sphere. Various councils have banned CHRISTMAS -on the grounds that it is ‘too’ CHRISTIAN -and therefore ‘offensive to peoples of other faiths,
and are replacing it with meaningless ‘WINTER FESTIVALS. This ATTACK on CHRISTIANITY is not merely something
that seems straight out of It is not merely a threat to FREEDOM of SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IT IS A FUNDAMENTAL ONSLAUGHT ON THE NATIONAL IDENTITY AND BEDROCK VALUES OF THIS COUNTRY AND AS SUCH WILL DESTROY THOSE FREEDOMS WHICH ITSELF CREATED. *
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in brackets] SEPTEMBER/06 *
* * [Though our viewers will be of many FAITHS or NONE the
threat to the hard won right to Freedom of Speech and Expression must be
safeguarded for ALL who protest peacefully. With the recent persecution of
Stephen Green of Christian Voice for distributing verses of the Holy Bible and
for the many others under threat for preaching the Gospel of Jesus we bring to
you the words of the saintly Thomas a Kempis. ‘Carry the cross patiently and with perfect submission; and in the end
it shall carry you.’ (1380-1471) A recent survey of EU countries showed that Catholic
countries had a happier population though not all being among the richest
nations. Their priorities where in the FAMILY and
the CHURCH. [Font altered-bolding & underlining used-comments
in brackets] SEPTEMBER/06
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