Affinity, a fellowship of evangelical churches and individuals, are encouraging Christian organisations to support them and sign a petition to prevent the potential persecution of religion in the future.
Graham Nicholls, the Director of Affinity, told Premier why a law was needed: “There is a clash going on, a cultural clash, a colliding of different rights and responsibilities.
“In that clash, religious freedom in part is being squeezed out by secular freedom, so we think it would be helpful and clarifying if religious rights were somehow enshrined in law.”
Nicholls said that believers do have many legal rights but that there is a danger these can slip away when tested in everyday life.
Explaining that many rights are enshrined in law, Nicholls added: “It’s not clarified what that actually means and how that works out in practice and whether we are free to worship – to read the scripture in public for example – is that a right that we should have? We think it should be and to be able to interpret scripture without government interference.”
Nicholls argued that a law would “save a lot of time wasted on spurious cases of prosecuting Christians on things like people preaching in public”.
When asked if our current freedoms are really in danger currently, he replied: “In practice. Not many of the cases have held against street preachers or against Christian preaching…
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