Christians especially the Roman Catholics,in practising their religion seem to believe that they are above the law of the land.
In this they are no different from the Islamic Umma , who place their religion above their Nation.
The difference is that the Christians are subtle.
In proselytising the Christians are way ahead of Muslims and they are not noticed for they do it subtly by offering money and promises while Muslims are brash and rush in with high decibel perorations and the blandishing of swords.
One should watch the Public meetings of the Evangelists, the way they speak(why is it all of them have the same intonation in delivering English and have the same posture?) and the way they go about ‘driving away Ghosts’
Paying lip service to tolerance, Christians are the most intolerant as History of Christianity will divulge.
Christians seem to be neglecting the Message of Christ and I often state that Christ will be the last person to identify Christianity as the one he has founded if were to arrive again!
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Religious rules should end “at the door of the temple” and give way to the “public law” laid down by Parliament, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said.
He argued that Roman Catholic adoption agencies and other faith groups providing public services must choose between their religion and obeying the law when their beliefs conflict with the will of the state.
Mr Phillips singled out the adoption agencies that fought a long legal battle to avoid being forced to accept homosexual couples under equality laws.
Last year, following a High Court case, the Charity Commission ruled against an exemption for Catholic Care, an adoption agency operating in Leeds.
Speaking at a debate in London on diverse societies, Mr Phillips backed the new laws, which led to the closure of all Catholic adoption agencies in England. “You can’t say because we decide we’re different then we need a different set of laws,” he said, in comments reported by The Tablet, the Catholic newspaper.
To me there’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn’t apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn’t work.”
He added that religious groups should be free to follow their own rules within their own settings but not outside. “Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law,” he said.
“Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don’t want to do that.”
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