More cross words
ONCE again, it has been left to Dr John Sentamu to illustrate how Christians are being marginalised. The latest such instance is the Government’s refusal to support two women fighting a discrimination case in the European courts after being forbidden from wearing a religious cross in the workplace.
As the Archbishop of York says with customary bluntness, there are two key issues at stake here. The first is the extent to which the Government should intervene on matters of faith and the second is how to prevent Christians from being discriminated against.
Yet this is precisely what is happening in Britain – with the rights of Muslim women to wear the burqa, for example, appearing to take precedence over a Christian’s ability to wear a cross. One of this country’s strengths is how it has embraced people from all faiths, but this tolerance is being stretched by perverse decisions that penalise people born here and brought up as Christians.