Tolerance of Christianity

Sir, - Once again, Alistair McBay of the National Secular Society uses these letters pages to continue his crusade against Christians (October 31).

This time he uses the Ashers bakery case to display prejudice. Unfortunately, he gets almost every detail wrong.

Christians do not base their case against samesex marriage on two verses in Leviticus and the Ashers case was not about discrimination against homosexuals.

The bakery was happy to bake a cake for the homosexual man who took them to court (aided by £40,000 of public money).

The bakery had done so before. What staff were not happy to do was put a political message in support of same-sex marriage, which is illegal in Northern Ireland, on the cake.

Apparently the National Secular Society thinks that the government has the right to tell private businesses what they should promote.

Gay activist Peter Tatchell disagrees with the NSS and rightly argues that the ruling is an outrageous infringement of free speech.

It is a ruling which would mean that a Muslim baker would be required to bake a cake with a message against Mohammed, or a gay baker required to bake a cake attacking same-sex marriage.

It is more than a little disappointing that in the name of equality, the National Secular Society continues to campaign against the hard-won basic freedoms in this country.

In the brave new secular society we will all be forced to not only agree with their ideology but even compelled to promote it. It is sad that we have moved so far away from our Christian roots

and its fruits of tolerance, equality, diversity and freedom of speech. David A. Robertson. St Peter’s Free Church 4 St Peter Street, Dundee.