Judge Rules Against UK Doctor Who Was Fired for ‘Inappropriate’ Christian E-mails & Language
- Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:00am by
Billy Hallowell
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Making it illegal to state one’s personal faith in the work place? This could became a reality in the United Kingdom after a judge ruled against a Birmingham, U.K., doctor who was dismissed after he sent a motivating prayer to fellow staff members at his hospital.
Unfortunately for Dr. David Drew, Employment Judge David Kearsley ruled that the motivational religious message was inappropriate and that his dismissal, as a result of refusing to comply with demands he not share faith materials, was appropriate.
Dr. David Drew (Image Credit: National Secular Society)
According to Drew, 64, his issues with fellow Walsall Manor Hospital staff members began unfolding in 2008. It was during that year that a senior nurse reported that Drew was undermining her. As a result of the accusation, he was suspended and an investigation was undertaken. In the end, the charges waged against him were dismissed. But his problems didn’t end there.
The Telegraph has more:
Following an independent review of his conduct, a report concluded that Dr Drew’s religious language was inappropriate in a professional business setting.
He was told that such communication was unacceptable and that his religious beliefs should be kept to himself.
The report also criticised Dr Drew for sending a text message to a colleague, Rob Hodgkins, reading “Have a peaceful Christmas” which was perceived as an “aggressive and unwelcome intrusion” into his private time.
Dr Drew, a father of four who lives with his wife Janet, 61, in Sutton Coldfield, West Mids, refused to adhere to the report’s recommendations and was dismissed for “gross misconduct and insubordination” three days before Christmas in 2010. He lost an appeal last April.
While speaking in an employment tribunal last week, Drew said that he was made to feel like a “religious maniac” and that he was merely attempting to rally and inspire his fellow workers. The judge, however, ruled that his behavior was unwelcome and that the decision to bar it had nothing to do with an anti-Christian bias. The Telegraph continues:
…Kearsley ruled that if complaints were made about Muslim or Hindu doctors who had quoted from holy texts, they too would be asked to refrain from such behaviour.
Similarly, if an atheist consultant caused unease by trying to educate his colleagues about “the works of Richard Dawkinsor Christopher Hitchens”, he or she would be treated in the same way, the judge said.
Image Credit: The Telegraph/SWNS
The eight-day tribunal clearly wasn’t favorable for Drew, who was accused by the hospital’s chief executive, Sue James, of producing a “toxic environment.” James said that he consistently complained about co-workers and that his religious mentions were divisive.
In the end, the judge ruled that the hospital was not anti-Christian in its handling of the situation and, as stated, that individuals of other faiths taking similar actions would have been punished accordingly.
“There is no need for such assertions in professional communication nor was there a need to make religious references if they are considered inappropriate and if they hinder proper communication,” the judge concluded.
In the end, Drew lamented the judge’s decision and said that it would have severe ramifications in the workplace.
“This means that you cannot be yourself in the workplace, you cannot say ‘I am a Christian’,” the doctor proclaimed. ”Other people who have got other religions won’t be allowed to either but of course what religion other people are because it is more visible. For example we would be in meetings when one or two of my colleagues who are Muslims would go across into a corner to pray.”
Others, too, agree with Drew‘s assessment of the dangers of proclaiming that stating one’s faith in the workplace is inappropriate.
“This is like the shutting down of identity. This approach to Christians is like forcing them to deny their identity — being Christian isn’t something which you take off when you go to work,” said Andrea Williams, who directs the Christian Legal Centre, a group that defends believers in the workplace. ”To say that it is not appropriate to say that you are a Christian at work is to totally misunderstand our history, our heritage, freedom under the law, freedom of religion, it is deeply illiberal, it is wrong.”
(H/T: The Telegraph)
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Delores at CH WV
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 1:00pmReally, what an honor this doctor has to become a soldier for Christianity! Onward Christian Soldier. . .
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 7:45amAs Scripture so CLEARLY states. Those who are TRUE Christians will be persecuted for our faith.
Report Post »We should examine ourselves, as Scripture states, that we are IN the faith. If one in NOT being presecuted ,in some way for it, does one have REAL faith? Is one a TRUE disciple of Christ, proclaiming the Gospel? If one is, then Christ tells us we will suffer persecution. Examine yourselves brother and sisters, in Christ!
MLee
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 2:46amA white martyr. God bless you, Dr. drew. Good to know there are still British willing to practice religious freedom in a country going down the tubes in such matters.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:35pmAmerica in less than 4 years unless we make a change in November.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:43pmIt’s America already… for gays. It could just as easily be said by a homosexual in an American workplace, “This means that you cannot be yourself in the workplace, you cannot say ‘I am gay’.” In many jurisdictions and many workplaces, that will get you fired just as fast if not faster than what happened to this doctor. Fail to conform to gender stereotypes in manners of speech or dress, gay and fired. Place picture of same-sex spouse or life partner on your desk in the exact same size, picture frame, and place on your desk as your heterosexual colleagues, gay and fired. Mention in passing, off the clock conversations that after work you’re going to a place or event particular to homosexuals, gay and fired.
What’s bad for the goose is bad for the gander.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:08amWe’re making the CHANGE. The Muslims have bullied their way in to almost every where including our White House, but since GOD created the Universe, I think this is about as far as they get. I urge everyone who has been just drifting along to find their way into a Church and just have a one on one with GOD. I cannot even imagine life without my faith. What we’re seeing out in this world now is a world without GOD…see how UGLY, cruel and dangerous it is? Islam is from SATAN folks. IT’S a cult. The people who have been tricked into being Muslims are unable to get out. Pray for them. GET TO KNOW GOD..it’s the best use of your time – ever!!! :)
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:52amLesbian Packing Hollow Points . I am American. I am a heterosexual. I go to work to work, and I do my job well, regardless of my sexual orientation. Honestly, so many gays are in your face with regards to their sexual orientation. What you do on your off time or personal time is your business, but please, leave it out of the work place!!!
Report Post »Mikhail Kennedy
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:39amLesbian
Report Post »I am sure that you have had your share of people who have said that they don’t want to hear about your homosexuality, as it appears that every post that you reply to is about your sexuality and the intolerance shown to you.
Do you think that it might have something to do with the fact that you are trying to shove your gay pride in other peoples faces, even when the topic has nothing to do with being gay?
Just because your life revolves around you being gay does not mean that we want to hear about it 24 hours of every day.
Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:25pm@ Mikhail Kennedy:
Just because you’re a Christian, doesn’t mean that everyone around you wants to hear about it.
See how that’s directly analogous to the story here? And did nothing about the examples I give sink in? As a heterosexual in the workplace, you can display a photograph of your wife and no one thinks a thing about it. If I displayed a photograph of my wife, at the minimum, even without working for an evil corporation with bigotted HR directors, I can expect, at a minimum, to get preached at day in day out by my turbo-Christian co-workers and even open harassment from those who only give lip service to the ways of gawd, but are really being evil just because that’s the way they were raised to think.
You don’t want to hear about my homosexuality and Atheism, but I don’t want to hear about your heterosexuality and Christianity EITHER! The doc in this story is finally having to come to grips with a fact of working life that non-heteros and non-Christians have dealt with for a very, very, VERY long time.
He can cry me a river.
Report Post »Rebecca Olesen
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:29pmthis is @LESBIAN – god shut the hell up already, I am so sick of your stupid CRAP, who the hell is supposed to talk about their damn sex life or sexual preferences at work anyway. Why do you feel the necessity to proclaim your ‘sexual identity’ in ever conceivable and sometimes inappropriate settings? There‘s a LOT of things a LOT of people aren’t free to say or talk about at work – views on race, religion, politics usually have to be held close to the vest; do you think I‘d want to tell people at work what kind of person I’d rather have sex with at work? DO YOU THINK THEY EVEN CARE OR WANT TO HEAR IT? Nobody cares! OMG you’re GAY, who gives a damn. I’ve been having gay friends for 34 years!! I can tell you, things are better now. Will you ever be free from bigotry? NO and hell no – too many people hate gay people. There’s 1.6 BILLION muslims in the world, and they all want to see you executed by Shari’a special order from their stupid fake ass prophet. I used to be harassed bullied & threatened for wearing MINIskirts or a low cut top in Memphis, TN around 1980. There are gay people all over the world being MURDERED, JAILED, BURIED ALIVE, lesbians who are ‘raped’ to ‘make them straight & give them a taste of a man‘ in Africa AND YOU’RE PISSED CAUSE YOU CAN‘T WALK AROUND AT WORK telling people you’re GAY? GET OVER IT you sound like a whiny little bitch.
Report Post »ToddH
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 3:43amI can’t help but think we are not getting the whole story here. I have worked in California in all atheist, 90% gay/jew hate-the-christian-with-all-your-might movie studios and TV shows, and even there we would tell eachother to “have a Merry Christmas” and nobody ever got fired for that. I would not expect anyone to fare so well if they carried a Bible with them everywhere or if they were constantly preaching, but that kind of stuff is not mentioned above. So what is missing from this story, I wonder?
Report Post »(***In example above, sometimes we said “happy holidays” instead, but it was not required).
ToddH
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 3:48amI have worked in places where christians get fired and gays get promoted to the top. this does happen in America but mostly in media and entertainment in California and New York.
Report Post »The firings never take place over “have a peaceful Christmas”.
I know it happens: I know Christians do get persecuted in the workplace, especially those very successful workplaces where only liberal atheists are allowed to work.
But when the claim is something so petty, you can usually bet there is more to the story. See the links in the response from Verytas below.
HorseCrazy
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:04pmThe report also criticised Dr Drew for sending a text message to a colleague, Rob Hodgkins, reading “Have a peaceful Christmas” which was perceived as an “aggressive and unwelcome intrusion” into his private time.
oh militant secular athiests yes that evil peaceful Christmas and those warm wishes how awful right? I pray this man writes a book, gets a job, becomes a speaker. We need this message out about how backwards this world has become
Report Post »JRook
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:31pm“The report also criticised Dr Drew for sending a text message to a colleague, Rob Hodgkins, reading Have a peaceful Christmas” Right quote wrong interpretation. The quote is selective on the part of the author or the blaze report. It would appear to specifically pull out the most non-controversial communication to promote and reinforce a biased. How’s about we see the entirety of the communications from Dr. Drew and hear from the folds who felt they were unwelcome intrusion and inappropriate. But of course that would not serve the purpose here or get the intended reactions.
Report Post »thibx
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:30amthere is power in the name of JESUS that is why satan is fighting so hard. at the name of JESUS demons have to bow. some day this judge will have to bow.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:53amThe time has come when evil is looked upon as good, and good as evil.
Report Post »Byrdi
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:17amWe are experiencing the end of days. There is nothing left out of the warning signs. The climate, the prominence of gays, the push against Christianity, and most of all, the obvious sign that people seem to have lost their minds.
Report Post »Sol Invictus
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:15pmThe again you could hear the real story rather than the spin that the Blaze put on it….
Report Post »“A National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) report found that the Medical Director had reported Drew as obstructive, unmanageable, possibly psychotic and guilty of leaking details of a murdered child to the press. He said Drew was a danger to both staff and patients.” Bur hey, your rant is far more fun.
Sol Invictus
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:27pmYes, I know there are 2 typos in my post – it happens when you’re laughing as you type….
Report Post »Verytas
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:08pmSol Invictus
Youre guilty of the selective quoting you accuse this report of. Read this properly…
http://medicalharm.org/doctor-stories/whistleblower-dr-david-drew-refuses-to-take-the-hush-money/
This is written by a very respected medical journalist in England called Phill Hammond who was a whistle blower himself. This guy (Drew) did the right thing. He was trying to protect patients and staff and the hospital management offered him money on condition he sign a gagging order not to speak about it. He is a hero man. They just used his religion against him to get him out….
Report Post »slr4528
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:43amWhatever happened to the church of England and God Save The Queen????????
How can Muslims be allowed to interrupt work and retreat to a corner and pray?
Report Post »majahn
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:32pmmuslims have taken over the UK. If you are Christian you can’t wear a cross at work, but the person next to you can wear a burka. How completely insane is that ? If you are overheard saying something negative about the muslims ( not capitalizing on purpose ) you can actually be arrested ?????
Report Post »The world has gone insane, you can just sit back and watch it happen it’s happening so fast, like watch a horror movie, on this is real. God help us all…
conservativewoman
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:41amThis is another reason why Christians of all denominations and practices should stand together, yet I see a lot of in-fighting and bigotry on the Blaze forum alone.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:00pmit is mostly because the trolls come out on every religious story, they bait or pretend to be Christians and spout nonsense.
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 2:14pmYeah they love to troll on any religion article they can find
Report Post »stmoad
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:18amAm I the only one who read this headline as “Dr Who”? Thats the reason I clicked it…And it has nothing to do with him. :-(
Ok, now I’ll go read the story.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:31amYou watch way too much tv.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:14amDr Stuart Crane gave a college course lesson on the Masons. He alleges that our government is full of masons (George Washington was a mason) and under masonry you can pray to any god except the Jesus Christ. Seems about right.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:29amBTW: London is NOT part of England. It is a sovereign entity just like the Vatican. London is the headquarters for the masons. Westminster is the capital of England.
Report Post »Did you know that the entrance to a masonic hall always faces west? “Have you been east?”
mtorres20
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:09amThe war on Christians has started and its time to stand up to these bigots and make them sorry they are bigots.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:18amWhat’s the verse in the Bible that says “they” shall crucify the real Christians “thinking they do God service?”
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:41amOh Ramon, you’re so obvious. But just for the fun of it, start with these:
Matthew 24:9-13
Ephesians 6:14-15
2 Thessalonians (All of it is great but focus on 14 & 15)
Matthew 5:10
Just to name a few.
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:42amThis is the Tribulation spoken of in Revelation. Satan is warring with the believers/saints. I feel blessed that I work in a group of now 6 hospitals that actually have that we are working for the healing ministry of Jesus Christ in their mission statement!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:08amDr. Drew, thank you for your stand, for your sacrifice, for your faithfulness.
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT you in JESUS’ HOLY, MIGHTY name, amen.
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:04amI think Christians should all now wear Christian garb and demand time out to pray during work hours. If it is allowed by muslims, than it should be allowed to ALL. There is no defense otherwise.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:01amIt’s getting that way here. Many workplace diversity presentations now list white racist organizations as “Christian Identity” hate groups, even though their agenda is clearly white supremacy, not Christ supremacy. As far as I have been able to determine, this is done for no other reason than to associate the name of Christ with “hate”. These same diversity presentations list no muslim religious “hate groups” or black or hispanic racist “hate groups”. Apparently, these workplace diversity organizations can themselves exercise all the hate they want if it is directed at white Christian males.
Report Post »nonofmybiznez
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:16amEverything right is wrong, everything good is bad, everything you believed in is wrong and evil is alive. Just look around. We can still pray and believe in God, but we must do so in private. Stand up and be strong. They want us to be quiet and go away. I will not. Who is with me?
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:22amI will not go quietly into that goodnight. Or something. Anyway, they can’t shut me up either.
Report Post »girlnurse
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 3:08pmBIZNEZ…Im SOOOOOO with you!:)
Report Post »wbedding
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:00amnext stop on the traveling band of anti-Christian laws – the soon-to-be Un-United States of America. courtesy of the ACLU and BHO.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:58amIsn’t wearing religious symbols, such as a cross on a chain
> prohibited for workers as well?
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:01pmIn france it is if I remember correctly they are on the cusp of this in the UK. This is scary for these folks I will be praying for them.
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:54amDoctor, come to Utah – your medical expertise will not be undermined here and you will be free to say Merry Christmas as well.
The benefits of civilization.
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:53amEmployment judge? We gotta get us one of those! We are not a modern nation without such an intellectually erudite person to tell us who we can and cannot employ.
Modern Fascism at its finest.
Report Post »BLAZENewser
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:49amI am an Officer in the United States Army. 28 years of service. 42 months of service in Iraq which included the invasion and the surge. I was removed from my job because of my Christian Faith. I was in charge of 650 students attending school. The similarities to the complaints made against me are amazing. The same sorts of arguments and accusations against me. Hostile work place. People felt offended because I was a Christian. I was doing professional development on the Constitution for officers who swear to uphold the Constitution……they said I was insensitive to those who did not believe in the Constitution and that I was insensitive to their cultural differences by making them read it and talk about it. I was removed from my duties and placed in an administrative role because it was deemed that I was “too controversial to be around students”. It is here already in your military people. I am living proof.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:00amThank you for your service and thank you for sharing your story. We are Rome in her final days.
Of what you wrote, the part that was most telling was “they said I was insensitive to those who did not believe in the Constitution”. I can‘t even understood what these people signed up for if they don’t believe in the Constitution.
Thanks for fighting the good fight. You know your rewards are not of this world. God bless.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:07amThank you for your service!
Thank you for your stands for freedom of our faith.
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT you and yours. I know HE IS!
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:11amYeah, we have a name for those ‘who do not believe in the Constitution’ they are called DOMESTIC ENEMIES.
Report Post »BLAZENewser
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:34amI really am doing what I Love. I am humbled by your words of “Thanks” because I do this job because I really do just love my counrty and know that God has Blessed us to live in the Greatest Country on earth because it is trully the only Becon of true Liberty that is left as far as governments go. We need to educate our citizens as to why our Country is so great. Ask anyone….most dont even know why or have a coherant answer. Even from the young officers I was working with …they had no answer….usually they would answer some thing about our natural resources or a “slogan” of freedom but could not put a meaning to freedom. I would have to explain that it is our form of government that makes us the greatest country on the earth. And that government was established by the Constitution. If we dont educate our people on the Constitution and its true meaning….we are lost as a country. Education is the key.
Report Post »As a note to NEMO13 – I would ask these young officers to define what Domestic Enemy meant to them…since that is part of the oath they took. The most common reply was …..a stare and a shoulder shrug. One young officer actually told me that she did not believe in the Constitution and that it was just a formality to getting the job to have to take the oath. She followed that up with” the Constitution was written by a bunch of old white, bigoted, mysogenistic men”. It was she who initially filed the first complaint against me.
FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:11amYou have alot to offer in the service of our Lord and society my brother. Your character is exemplary. You may have lost your opportunity to service the students, but the students lost an opportunity to rub shoulders on earth with eternity. Only the devil, the great murderer, can be behind such vile plots to silence your relationships of love.
Report Post »Look for a bigger opportunity. We need men like you everywhere. Many Christian schools lack the leadership you offer. God Bless You.
GrayPanther
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:20amCan we say the Communists have established a leadership position in our own military? Everyone in public service is supposed to hold allegiance to the U S Constitution which also assures in the first amendment a freedom of religion. I guess just reading the constitution would send fear up the back of a communist or an atheist. We can’t let the minority rule the majority on such matters. Look what it’s doing to England. We cannot go there!
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:05pmFriends, study the silencing of Americas church using the 501C3 tax exempt status in return for not speaking about political corruption and sin in America naming poitical names and specific issues. In being silenced the churches in America, body of Christ, have unknowingly prostituted the body of Christ contracting with the gov. for exemption in exchange for required silence against reproving sin of our leaders. The gov. affectively tells churches they can not talk about political people for or against. The church with 501C3 tax exemption status can not even endorse a Christian political candidate over a say muslim candidate for an office. This corp. tax status has allowed the gov. to become part of the headship authority of churches in America. The result is churches have unknowingly prostituted their Christ headship with the gov. Furthermore, the exemption always existed and the corp. contract never needed to be applied for by churches. Study the issue.
Report Post »Now the pulpits in America are silence and the people are confounded on relevant issues of political sin, who to vote for, and what political sin needs reproving, and what political righteousness to promote much of the time.
What status is your church? Has your churche compromised it’s headship of Christ? Fortunately it’s easy for a church to refile tax status and remove the dual authority of Christ and the gov. reverting back to just Christ headship. Good material can be found on Youtube.
girlnurse
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 3:07pmFROMSEATOSEA: I challenge ALL preachers to speak out and not be “scaaared”…LOOK what Rev Wright, Jesse High Jackasson, and Sharpton speak out about…don‘t u think they’re 5013c’d?
Report Post »Preachers=pansy’s…GIMME a man of GOD with some backbone!
Dismayed Veteran
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:38amIn the US, the laws, regulations and private business rules are very similar. It is against the law to discriminate on the basis of religion, among other categories. The behavior model is “You can believe any thing you want. You can not act it out in the workplace.” Two issues are involved here. One, people are not exposed to topics that are considered discriminatory. Two, the employer limits financial risk.
I expect that respondents to this story will say that this is unchristian. Remember it protects us from having a Muslim freely spout his slop also.
In 2002, I was brought into a business as a turn around specialist in Human Resources. The first issue I had to resolve was the termination of an employee who was fired for reading an Arabic newspape during break. The employee was from Iran. this was 5 months after 9/11 and employees were frightened of this employee because the employee came from Iran.
The situation had some real problems.
1. The employee was a political refugee from Iran.
2. The employee was an Armenian Orthodox Catholic, not a muslim.
3. The paper the employee was reading was a Orthodox newspaper.
4. The employeewas reading in Arabic because the paper did not come in an English language edition.
5. The employee was fired in the breakroom in front of other employees.
6. The employees cheered as Security led the employee was walked out of the break room.
Guess how much we paid?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:06amLow 6 figures
Report Post »BlondeFrenzy
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:37amYet the Muslims can leave a meeting and go to a corner to pray!!! WTH???? How is THAT appropriate??? And I’m sure they are allowed to wear their Muslim garb.. How bout Christians prance about with a full length crucifix down their clothing? This is just plain sickening!
Report Post »FstEti
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:07pmHere’s a thought; when the Muslims kneel towards Mecca for their multiple daily prayers which appears to be more and more acceptable in work places throughout the world, how about Christians, Jews, and other people of faith do their forms of prayer at the same time? I wonder how this judge would handle that?
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:36amThe U.K. will pay for that when muslims totally take over the country and start killing them.
Report Post »hi
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:34amI hope they have an ACLJ there to take on the case. But, UK has already gone too far into socialism which prevents freedom of religion and speech.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:17amI suppose I would be out of work bc I will not be anywhere I can’t express my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ if I choose to.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:30amExactly,Christian should flee that country and leave them with the Muslims they are trying to inhibit.
Report Post »There is a need for medical professional around the world, All christian should resign and then move out of the U.K.
copatriots
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:04amWe are in the world, not of the world. Where would Christians go? The fight is wherever we are.
Blessings.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:16amComing to American Christians all too soon under Dictator Obama.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:10amDespite what he says, Dictator Obama is not a Christian. He is a muslin. And a liar. And a traitor.
Report Post »Blitz
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:14amAlthough it is rough losing your job consider yourself blessed that the evil of this world worked so hard to shut down the message that we carry forth in our hearts. many blessings sir.
Report Post »the_united_states_of_britain
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:58amnow thats christianity. everything is a blessing. i wish every christian acted so gracious. no anger, no hate, beautiful.
good health to your family
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