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"en.20120418.18.3-178-000"2
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"Madam President, the United Kingdom has a strong record on the protection of human rights, but I want to focus on one aspect of human rights which I think is increasingly coming under threat, and that is freedom of religious expression.
We hear of Christians being punished by employers for expressing their faith, or Christian businesses being fined for holding to their Christian principles in how they conduct their affairs. It is quite clear that what is happening is a relentless orchestrated campaign to remove or at least to silence the manifestation of the Christian message in today’s society.
Last week, Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, said in a written submission to the European Court of Human Rights that Christians are being vilified by the British courts and driven underground. It is my hope that in September, when faced with the opportunity to stand up for Christian rights in landmark cases before the European Court, Europe’s judges will do just that.
Many judgments are based on the grounds of equality law, and equality seems to protect all minority groups except for Christians in what is sometimes a skewed and perverse interpretation of the term."@en1
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