The British legal system is becoming anti-Christian
according to Church of England bishop, Rt Rev Michael Scott- 
Joynt.
He said that the Human Rights Act was protecting minority
groups at the expense of Christians and that part of the reason for this was
growing religious illiteracy.
Bishop Scott-Joynt told Radio 4’s World This Weekend show: “The problem is
that there is a really quite widespread perception among Christians that there
is growing up something of an imbalance in the legal position with regard to
the freedom of Christians and people of other faiths to pursue the calling of
their faith in public life, in public service.
“Probably for the first time in our history there is a widespread lack of
religious literacy among those who one way and another hold power and
influence, whether it’s Parliament or the media or even, dare I say it, in the
judiciary.
“The risk would be that there are increasingly professions where it could be
difficult for people who are devoted believers to work in certain of the public
services, indeed in Parliament.”
The bishop added: “Anybody who is part of the religious community believes
that you don’t just hold views, you live them. Manifesting your faith is part
of having it and not part of some optional bolt-on.
“Judgement seemed to be following contemporary society, which seems to think
that secularist views are statements of the obvious and religious views are
notions in the mind. That is the culture in which we are living.”
The former Chief Justice Lord Woolf has made similar comments and agrees
that in some legal cases the balance had tipped too far away from Christians.
Among the cases referred to by Bishop Scott-Joynt was that of Gary
McFarlane, a relationship counsellor who was sacked because he would not offer
sex therapy to a homosexual couple.