MEP Roger Helmer: Christians Persecuted Like Smokers
"I imagine many Christians today feel under threat. The newspaper headlines about Christmas/Winterval, about the exclusion of faith groups from the public space and civic programmes, about the banning of Christian symbols, have become almost clichés. Indeed I see a kind of parallel with smokers, who are also persecuted, and forced to indulge their habit out in the rain. I am neither a member of any organised religion (though I feel a cultural affinity with the Church of England), nor am I a smoker. But as an MEP I represent a great number of Christians, and smokers, and they have rights too. At least they have a right to respect for their views. We don’t have to agree with them, but we must recognise their right to disagree with us." (Member of the European Parliament Roger Helmer)
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