UK: Ex-top judge warns against penalising Christian beliefs

Tue, 4 Jan 2011
The legal system may have gone “too far” in restricting the right of Christians to live out their faith, Britain’s former top judge has cautioned.

Lord Woolf’s comments came after the Bishop of Winchester warned that the demise of “religious literacy” had created an imbalance in the way Christians are treated by the courts.

And Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has urged the Prime Minister to review legislation which has been used to penalise Christians. the rest