Christianity Is Under Attack

The public order act of 1986 was not meant to permit the arrest of Christian preachers in English towns for quoting from the Bible.
But it has.
The civil partnerships act 2004 was not meant to force public servants to approve of homosexuality.
But it has.
The sexual offences act of 1967 was not meant to lead to a state of affairs where it is increasingly dangerous to say anything critical about homosexuality.
But it has.
And the laws of Britain, being entirely based upon the Christian bible, were not meant to be used by a sneering judge to declare that Christianity had no higher status in this ancient Christian civilisation than Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism.
But it has.

Until 1967, homosexuals could be – and were – arrested and prosecuted for their private, consenting, adult acts.
This was a cruel, bad law that should never have been made.
It led to blackmail and misery of all kinds.
Those who repealed it did so out of humanity and an acceptance that we need to live in peace alongside others whose views and habits we do not share.
No such generous tolerance is available from the sexual revolutionaries.
Now, we are close to the point where a person can be prosecuted for saying in public that homosexual acts are wrong.
And officers of the law, deciding they have powers nobody knew they had, or meant them to have, once required to stay out of all controversy, get keen official endorsement when they take part in open political demonstrations in favour of homosexual equality.

We have travelled in almost no time from repression, through a brief moment of mutual tolerance, to a new repression.
And at the same time, the freedom of Christians to follow their beliefs in workplaces is under aggressive attack.
Small and harmless actions, offers of prayer, the wearing of crucifixes, requests to withdraw from duties, are met with official rage and threats of dismissal, out of all proportion.
Daily the confidence of the new regime grows.
It has not stopped, nor is it slowing down.