Mar 01 2012
UK Equality Commissioner states that freedom of religion and …
Sir Trevor Phillips,the Head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has stated categorically that freedom of religion and freedom of conscience is restricted to within the confines of church buildings if they conflict with secular law:
Sir Tevor said that ?the law stops at the door of the temple as far as I am concerned?,explaining that it was only inside a church or religious institution that believers could apply their own rules.?
The Government?s Equality Commissioner condemned Christians for insisting that they follow the teachings of Christ and their consciences of wanting to impose ?sharia law?on ?the UK.
The Tablet reports:
?Britain?s equality commissioner has said making an exemption in laws for Christian-run institutions is the equivalent of allowing Muslims to adopt sharia law. Citing the case of those Catholic adoption agencies that wished only to work with heterosexual couples,Sir Trevor Phillips?said equality laws had to apply across the board.
?You can?t say because we decide we?re different then we need a different set of laws. To me there?s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency or?Methodist?adoption agency saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn?t apply to us. Why not say sharia law can?t be?applied?to different parts of the country??
Dr Philip Giddings,chairman of the Church of England?s public affairs council,rejected Mr Phillips?s analysis. ?It is a strange comparison,? he said.
Catholic adoption agencies were providing a voluntary service and which families and local authorities did not have to choose to use.
?It seems to me that the state is going a step too far to insist that certain kinds of adoption agencies and service providers cannot be allowed to make their offer like everybody else,? he said. ?That does look awfully like discrimination against religious bodies.?
Protect the Pope comment:The Equality Commissioner,like the Obama administration,is attempting to re-define freedom of religion as freedom to worship. It?s a verbal slight of hand that seeks to strip away our basic human rights as religious believers in public life and wider society. Basically he?s saying we?re free to practice our faith within our church buildings but nowhere else in society.
Trevor Phillips has already removed our right to practice the moral teachings of the faith within our own homes,because,for example,if we run a bed and breakfast we have to allow homosexuals to sleep together in rooms in our houses,or else be taken to court and fined.
Trevor Phillips,and his like,have removed the rights of parents to bring their children up in the faith,because if our children,as young as 13,want contraception or abortion the State will provide it without parental knowledge or consent.
Trevor Phillips?trivializes Catholic moral teaching on sexuality and parenthood by saying that??we just ?decided?we?re different?and that we need a different set of laws?. ?Catholics didn?t decide we?re different when parliament changed the law,we remained steadfast in upholding the moral law of 2,000 years.
Trevor Phillips is also hypocritical by saying Christian demands to follow their teachings and consciences are equivalent to wanting to impose sharia law. ?Sharia law is being exercised in the UK,creating a parallel legal system with the support of the liberal establishment in this country as an expression of ?diversity?. Here?s the BBC?s support for sharia law in the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7234870.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9088957/Trevor-Phillips-stands-by-ridiculous-Sharia-comparison.html
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Source: http://protectthepope.com/?p=4740
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