Worshipping on Sunday is okay, but witnessing on Monday…?
By Russell Powell, Sydney Anglicans:
A leading religious freedom expert has laid out the issues ahead for Christians expressing their faith in public, saying the looming battleground is not private, but public, beliefs.
Delivering the 2020 New College lectures, “Family and Faith in a Multicultural Society”, Professor Patrick Parkinson said he didn’t believe freedom of worship would be restricted in our lifetimes.
“I cannot see it happen and there’s a very good reason why I can’t see it happen, that’s because no one much cares whether I go to church on Sundays or play video games on Sundays,” he said. “It doesn’t matter to anybody else. I have the freedom to do what I want on Sunday mornings and I don’t expect that to change because no one else is affected by my exercise of the right of freedom of worship.
“What is threatened is not what I do on Sundays but what I do on Mondays and throughout the working week. Increasingly, in my experience – and I’m sure in many of yours as well – there’s a mood of hostility towards people of faith, to the extent that they express their beliefs in the public square.
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