Nicola Sturgeon broke the law in banning Christians from church
by Archbishop Cranmer:
Thank God for Christian Concern, the Christian Legal Centre, and the intrepid Andrea Minichiello Williams. No-one else seemed to care about the SNP’s ban on church worship – at least not sufficiently to pour in the necessary £1000s and risk a liability of £10,000s should the case have been lost. But Christian Concern stepped in to support 27 Protestant ministers from the Free Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) and the Church of Scotland inter alia, and one Roman Catholic priest (who joined the action late) in order to challenge the SNP’s closure of Scottish churches during the Covid-19 pandemic, which effectively criminalised gathered church worship (and, indeed, all corporate worship of all gods, though other faith leaders weren’t overly concerned – at least not sufficiently to pour in the necessary £1000s and risk a liability of £10,000s should the case have been lost).
Christian Concern won a significant victory, not least because they have clarified the limitations on the State in respect of the Church: politicians have neither the power nor the right to prohibit Christians gathering for worship – not even during a global pandemic.
In the Court of Session, Lord Braid was scathing in his judgment. He ruled that it is not for Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP, or, indeed, any Scottish Ministers of the Crown to “dictate to the petitioners or to the additional party, that, henceforth, or even for the duration of the pandemic, worship is to be conducted on-line. That might be an alternative to worship but it is not worship. At very best for the respondents, in modern parlance, it is worship-lite.”
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