Faith & Conservative Leadership Election
from Conservative Christian Fellowship:
Five Conservative MPs have announced their intention to stand for Conservative Party Leadership today. What have they said about faith and religion?
Stephen Crabb: “It is easier for a politician to admit to smoking weed or watching porn than it is to admit that they might take prayer seriously in their daily life.”
The Work and Pensions Secretary gave the Conservative Christian Fellowship’s Annual Wilberforce Address in December 2015. In his lecture to CCF members, the Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire warned that Britain’s increasingly secular society risks “pushing more young Muslims into the arms of ISIS” and urged “people of faith to protect the freedoms of each other and of all minorities”. He also suggested that freedom of religion is under threat, as the current mood meant “faith gets squeezed further into the margins of public life and religion becomes delegitimised through suspicion, fear or ridicule”. Listen to Stephen Crabb’s full address here.
Liam Fox: “Blessed are the peacemakers is hardly the slogan of intolerance.”
Responding to criticisms of his short video titled “Don’t apologise for Christmas” on oneminutefox.com, the former Defence Secretary argued for the right of people of faith to express their religion. “The truth is that banning a school nativity play or instructing civil servants not to use the word Christmas in official greetings cards, is … part of a conscious attack by a self defined and self righteous minority on the freedoms of the rest of us”, wrote the Member of Parliament for North Somerset. He pointed to the “wider issue” that this revealed – “the politically correct” imposing their values on the rest of society. But Fox is confident that “the British people would never vote for such nonsense”.
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