Dear Mr Brady, The peaceful demonstration outside Bristol County Court in support of Christian bed and breakfast owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull contrasts sharply with the appalling lawlessness we witnessed outside Parliament on Thursday.
The Bulls' supporters sang the great hymn by the converted 18th century slave trader, John Newton, celebrating the wonder of the salvation the Lord Jesus Christ has achieved for sinful mankind:
Amazing grace - how sweet the sound - that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.
The Bristol demonstrators held up placards reminding the public that the Bulls are being sued for acting to uphold orthodox Christian moral standards in their own home.
The contrast in behaviour between the London and Bristol demonstrators surely contains a powerful message in itself: since the advent of the permissive society in the 1960s and the replacement of Christian values with the ideology of political correctness, our country has become significantly less law-abiding, courteous, civil, and thankful for the God-given privilege of living in a Parliamentary democracy.
I am not a member of the Conservative Party but am inclined to thank God that backbench MPs in the main political parties still have the capacity to hold the executive to account. By God's grace we are not yet an elective dictatorship.
I am writing, sir, to ask you at the next meeting of your 1922 Committee to raise the grave threat to freedom of conscience in our country represented by the politically-correct prosecution of the Bulls. The legal fees of the two gentlemen suing these two pensioners under equality laws brought in by the previous government are being paid for by the tax-payer-funded Equality and Human Rights Commission.
It is not the policy of the Bulls' guest-house near Penzance, Cornwall, to turn people away on the ground that they do not personally adhere to Judaeo-Christian moral values. The Bulls' policy in their own home is to offer single bedrooms to unmarried couples.
Surely in a democracy that owes so much to Christian spiritual and moral values guest-house owners should be free to operate that sort of policy.
Thank you for your consideration.
With all Christian good wishes,
Julian Mann
Vicar
The Parish Church of the Ascension,
Oughtibridge
www.oughtibridgechurch.org.uk
This book review of Shaftesbury: The Great Reformer by Wycliffe Hall Principal, Dr Richard Turnbull, appeared in December's Evangelicals Now.
The fruits of theological neutering.
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