After an initial flurry in which two intellectually-challenged policemen from the Lancashire Constabulary told the owner of a Christian cafe in Blackpool that displaying this Bible texts was a breach of public order laws, the police have now apologised.

Jamie Murray, the owner of the Salt and Light coffeehouse, uses a set of DVDs that display the words of the New Testament on a screen on the cafe’s back wall.

Apparently, two officers from Lancashire Constabulary told Mr Murray that a member of the public had complained about ‘homophobic material’ and sid he was in breach of section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

The police, as the Christian Institute pointed out, ‘got the law wrong’. The cafe can carry on displaying the word of God. There is no need, as some are arguing, for a change in the law to remove the word ‘insulting’ from the Public Order Act.  Atheists are certainly in favour of such a change because of the embarrassment they feel in the face of each new episode of anti-Christian police persecution.

But as Ann Widdecombe has pointed out, in every case the police have had to back down and pay compensation to those falsely arrested or charged.

With all the pressures from secularists are and the government to legalise gay marriage, the demands of our time in the fields of abortion and sex education, but a continued threat of civil action against Christian hoteliers, surely we have more important things to concern us.

The police are slow learners, but there will come a time when the lowliest officer on the beat actually knows the law and the judgement of thank you Lord Justice Sedley in the case of Alison Redmond-Bate (1999).

The message is clear: ‘Carry on Preaching’!

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4 COMMENTS

  1. This is not th first time that Politically Correct (obsessed) Lancashire Police have threatened Christians – Gestapo Style – and had to back down. There is clearly a silent but anti-Christian campaign amonst them which the Chief Constable needs to investigate before there is more unecessary suffering..

  2. I’ve recently had an insight into what political correctness is all about.. It can be defined as ‘treating all people the same, as opposed to treating all people fairly’. Justice used to be a system where a Judge was helped to assess “What would be a fair application of the Law in (X) situation?” . These days it is “How is the Law to be applied the same to everybody?”. I was recently told by an ‘Advisor’ from my bank (name and address withheld) why I cannot have charges removed (I’m on benefit, so ‘right of first appropriation should apply), as I did once when my benefit went into a different account – “It wouldn’t be fair to treat one person different to others!”
    Because I’m submitted to Christ, I believe in a God who is unfair! I expect Him to treat me different to others. I believe in recieving His Favour and Blessing (which I cannot receive without being in Christ). Long Live Justice! Long Live Unfairness!!