End callous crusade against Christianity
DAVID Campanale is the candidate for the Liberal Democrats in Sutton and Cheam. In the last general election he stood against Kwasi Kwarteng and trebled the Lib Dem vote. Before that he worked for the BBC. Now he is facing de-selection because he is a practising Christian with strong pro-life beliefs. Of course, the Lib Dems have form. Their own leader, Tim Farron, stood down after a controversy over his views on gay matters, stating that he felt torn between living as “a faithful Christian” and being the leader of a political party.
As long ago as 1992, Paddy Ashdown announced that abortion would no longer be a matter of conscience but actually party policy, causing the Catholic MP David Alton to announce he would not stand again. When he went to the Lords, he was on John Major’s list not Ashdown’s.
This is straightforward religious discrimination but it is rife. Diversity apparently works for Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Jews and all manner of odd cults but not for Christians, who face the secular equivalent of the Inquisition, particularly in quarters describing themselves as liberal.
WHEN Pope Benedict XVI upset Muslims with some unguarded remarks in an academic lecture, worshippers at Westminster Cathedral that evening were greeted with placards proclaiming “Jesus is the slave of Allah” and “Islam will conquer Rome”.
The police did nothing, which I applaud in the name of free speech, but would they also have done nothing if Christians had stood outside a mosque proclaiming “Allah is the slave of Jesus” and “Rome will conquer Islam”? Like heck they would.
The laws of racial equality do not protect white people, the laws on gender equality do not protect men and the laws against religious discrimination do not protect Christians. Islam has stricter teaching on gay issues than Rome and both Muslims and Hindus are opposed to abortion but you will never hear their politicians pressed on such issues unless they belong to foreign governments.
David Campanale is just the latest in a long line of victims.