We sit as secular judges serving a multicultural community of many faiths. We are sworn (we quote the judicial oath) to ‘do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will’.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Next, it embodies the belief that secular values are neutral whereas Christian ones are not. But this is not true at all. Used in this way, secular values – to be more precise, evangelical atheistic values — are a direct attack on Christianity and normative western Biblical morality.<\/p>\n
The heresy for which the Johns have been punished was to refuse to subject the children in their care to the propaganda of a tendentious ideology. And—rub your eyes again – the children in question would be no older than ten years old. So the whole subject is anyway quite inappropriate for such young children. And so the Johns have actually been punished by these judges for attempting to protect the childhood innocence of the children in their care.<\/p>\n
In these circumstances, terms such as ‘totalitarian’ or ‘Orwellian’ are no exaggeration. During the case, there was an implication that the Johns should in effect have their brains re-programmed:<\/p>\n
\nDuring the case, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, an official watchdog, suggested that the couple could attend a ‘re-education’ programme, according to Mrs Johns. ‘Why do we need to be re-educated? Because we believe that homosexuality is not right?’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘We said we would sit down and talk to the child to find out where it is coming from. They said, “No, you would have to tell the child it is all right to be homosexual because there are too many children that are confused with their sexuality.” We thought, yes, but at eight?’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
As a result of this ruling, vulnerable children in care will suffer. Freedom has died another death. People are being persecuted for holding views which are no longer allowed. Religious believers are being treated like medieval heretics. The atheist inquisition is in full swing. And western liberal society takes another step towards the edge of the cultural cliff – pushed towards the drop by the English judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Source: The Spectator | Melanie Phillips The secular inquisition against Christians was ratcheted up another notch yesterday in a grotesque judgment in the High Court by two judges, who have actually banned a couple from fostering children simply because they hold traditional Christian views about homosexuality. The implications of this judgment are utterly appalling on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[11,13,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}