Time that Christians were shown respect

From: Nan Preston, Seaton Ross, York.

Britain is a free country where every adult is allowed to have his or her own beliefs and customs.

I read with horror the account of the electrician, Colin Atkinson, being told to remove his palm cross for fear of offending people of other faiths (Yorkshire Post, April 18).

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This case reminds me of the BA employee having to remove her crucifix from her necklace a while ago.

I am British and a Christian and proud to be both. Who makes these idiotic rules?

We, the British people, mostly Christian, have lost Christianity being taught in our schools (oh yes, my grandchildren were taught about other faiths), our farms, our industry (steel, shipbuilding etc), our banks.

Are we now to lose our faith as well?

It’s high time Christians were given the respect shown to other faiths in this green and pleasant land of ours.

From: Dan Laythorpe, Little Woodhouse, Leeds.

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WELL, you can always rely on the good old Holy Roman Catholic Church to drag us back to the Middle Ages. It would be depressing, were it not so absurd that in the 21st century, in what is probably, thankfully, the most secular state in Europe, an anachronistic and deeply reactionary organisation should seek to repress imaginative publicity for a play (Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford at West Yorkshire Playhouse: May 7-28) which, when written in 1633, was, as it still is, progressive and visionary – something Holy Mother Church could never be.

The controversial isolated incestuous relationship between brother and sister at the play’s centre pales into insignificance as a moral transgression, let alone a social one, when juxtaposed with the corruption, deceit, malice, greed, power hunger and murderousness of most of its other major bourgeois – and Catholic – characters, not least a powerful and rapacious Cardinal, the Pope’s Nuncio.