The rise of ‘anti-Christian hatred’: Time to make a stand! Write to your MP
from Voice for Justice UK:
In a ‘secret’ complaint to the House of Lords, Conservative MP Margot James has sought to get VfJUK banned from Parliament. Read why and how below.
It is often said these days that we live in a ‘post-truth’ world, but perhaps, more frighteningly, the reality is that we live in a world where the truth is increasingly being either distorted or actively suppressed. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the unremitting campaign to compel acceptance of recently rebranded ‘British values’, because somewhere along the line ‘tolerance’ of those who hold different values has been dumped. Indeed, we are now dangerously close to active, state sanctioned oppression of anyone who dares express dissent.
To put it bluntly, no one is allowed to express reservations regarding the new morality. Rather, under the cloak of equality and diversity, anything that puts forward a counter narrative – whether based on religion or medically and scientifically validated concern for health – is branded hate speak and bigotry, and increasingly criminalized. Such were the tactics of Communism and Nazi Germany, and indeed of any totalitarian state, when faced with opinions or actions that questioned the new regime.
It is with shock and dismay that I recently learnt of an attempt to block a legitimate Christian lobby group, Voice for Justice UK, from access to the Houses of Parliament, as result of a covert complaint made by the Conservative MP Margot James in respect of a meeting at which Revd Lynda Rose, CEO of VfJUK, was scheduled to speak. The complaint was discovered after a Freedom of Information request, made after the Group had been alerted to a serious but unspecified complaint.
In email correspondence to the Lord Speaker, Ms James said she found the views expressed by Revd Rose ‘offensive’, an opinion that she said she believed would be shared by many of her constituents. The views in question are simply an affirmation of Christian belief – as set down in the Bible – that all sexual relations outside marriage are prohibited, and that marriage is between one man and one woman for life. Ms James appears also to have taken exception to a book on the ideological reframing of Education over the last sixty years, recently published by VfJUK and entitled What are they Teaching the Children?.
Ms James accuses the Group of homophobia, but in fact the book is a carefully researched analysis of the UK’s cultural shift since the Second World War, using Government produced data and statistics demonstrating adverse health and social outcomes as result of new policies, many of which are prematurely and dangerously sexualizing children.
For Ms James to seek to silence both traditional Christian belief and Government data by making undisclosed (and therefore unanswerable) allegations smacks of totalitarianism, suggesting the wilful and deliberate suppression of free thought and free speech, and of any and all who may disagree with her. Even worse, Ms James’ attempt to have a member of the clergy banned because she herself takes issue with the Bible would appear to demonstrate an unacceptable and worrying opposition to Christianity – still, at this time, the established religion of the UK.
No Member of Parliament should be allowed to abuse his or her position to attack individual citizens or their beliefs in this way. As justification for her complaint, Ms James claims many on her constituents would share her views – but what of those who don’t? Do Christians in Stourbridge form such a minority as to justify being completely ignored, or is Ms James, as MP, neither prepared nor willing to represent those whose views differ from her own?
The conclusion is inescapable that Margot James has, for personal reasons, abused her position by making an unfounded and unjustified clandestine attack on a member of the public, who by definition was given no chance to respond. Such behaviour is scandalous. It is an abuse of the rights to freedom of belief and of speech, and an affront to democracy. The responsibility and duty of an elected Member of Parliament is to represent, defend, and protect the best interests of all UK citizens.
For the protection and maintenance of democracy and the reputation of Parliament as representing all UK citizens, I am therefore writing to ask you to use your influence to call for Ms James to be censured for conduct unbecoming that of an elected representative of the people.
Yours faithfully,
Please send your email to your MP, whose address can be found at http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/
Also send a copy to the Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May (mayt@parliament.uk); to John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons (speakersoffice@parliament.uk); and to the Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler (lordspeaker@parliament.uk).
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