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Michael Nazir-Ali: The legal threat to our spiritual tradition

By Alliance Alert

Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali. former Bishop of Rochester. writing in the Telegraph: "Lord Justice Laws's judgment on the Gary McFarlane case in the Court of Appeal ? that legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious ground cannot be justified ? has driven a coach and horses through the ancient association of the Christian faith with the constitutional and legal basis of British society. Everything from the Coronation Oath onwards suggests that there is an inextricable link between the Judaeo-Christian tradition of the Bible and the institutions, the values and the virtues of British society. If this judgment is allowed to stand, the aggressive secularists will have had their way." | Related: UK: Christian counsellor loses court fight over sacking

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).