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More bishops speak in support of school receptionist
by Scott Gilbreath ~ February 14th, 2009
Yesterday, Archbishop of York John Sentamu decried public intolerance toward Christians and cited as a recent example the threatened disciplinary action against school receptionist Jennie Cain for asking friends to pray for her and her five-year-old daughter.
Now several more Church of England bishops have done the same.
The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Rev David James, said: “There is a certain political correctness which tends to target Christians especially and forbid Christian expression.
“Often people claim to be doing this in the interest of other faiths, but they welcome Christians being upfront on their beliefes [sic].
“I think in part it arises out of a secular agenda which wants to restrict religion to the private sphere. But all our faiths impact on the way we live in the public domain.
“I think the secularists have to get real and accept the fact that Christianity, like other religions, isn’t something that happens between consenting adults in private.”
London Telegraph correspondent Martin Beckford has a question:
First they came for the Christians?
[…]
[R]ecent cases give the distinct impression that what is under attack is not evangelism, nor even Christianity, but freedom of speech itself.White Christian women are obviously an easy target, but as I pointed out last week in discussing the NHS guidelines on religion, what they are really aimed at is getting all believers to keep quiet unless they are within a designated private prayer space.
New Labour says it wants “equality”, but that apparently means that Christians must not mention any differences at all.
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