Dear Friends,
Thank you once more for
all your support in the London Bus Campaign.
We have been inundated
with calls asking how people might donate towards pressing
for a legal case against Boris Johnson for abusing his
position, as Mayor of London, in stopping our adverts
appearing on London buses.
If you wish to donate,
simply go onto Core Issues website, scroll to the
bottom where it says “DONATE”. (I
believe you can donate directly without having to sign up to
Paypal.) This page will also give you far more information
about the presenting issue.
It goes without saying
that the legal action initiated by Core Issues Trust to
defend these rights to freedom of speech and belief will be
costly. Conservative estimates are for a minimum of
£20,000. Can you help us? If everyone on the data base
were to contribute £5 or £10 – or more if
you wish, we believe we could more than cover the costs.
Christian freedoms must be defended, and we are committed to
the battle - but without financial help we will fail before
we’ve even begun.
Finally I must highlight
this is not a tit for tat spat between Christians and Boris.
The issues here go way beyond “turning the other
cheek”. If individuals in powerful positions, can ride
rough shod over the law of the land by using fear, blatant
censorship, anti – Christian discrimination, sackings,
threatening people with loss of their livelihoods, courts
prejudiced in favour of homosexuals and even physical
violence, then all our freedoms are in jeopardy. Justice and
Truth that have taken two thousand years to establish in
Britain will be lost in a day.
TS Eliot
(1888–1965). The American-British poet and critic
wrote:
“If Christianity
goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start
painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture
readymade. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the
sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be
made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We
should not live to see the new culture, nor would our
great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we did, not one of
us would be happy in it.”
The philosopher Will
Durant, speaking of the journey that our civilisation took
from barbarism to civilisation, said that it had required
centuries, but “the journey from civilisation to
barbarism needs but a day.”
His words were echoed in
2007 at the end of the debate on Gay Adoption by Gerald
Howarth MP when he said, "Tony Blair has given us 20
months to adapt 2,000 years of Christian teaching. It's
unacceptable."
We may thank our
“luck stars” that we are not teachers,
therapists, bed and breakfast owners, marriage registrars,
counsellors, nurses or doctors etc. who have lost their jobs
for standing for Christians truths, but one day, when we
need their services, we will find that there is no one there
to help us.
Like the Polish shipyard
workers of the union, Solidarity, who on 31 August 1980, in
Gdańsk at the Lenin Shipyards, faced an oppressive
regime, we need to show solidarity.
Please consider dipping
into your back pocket and donating- before even this freedom
is taken away.
Finally please sign the
Petition against the Terrance Higgins Trust.
God Bless and protect us
and our children.
David Skinner
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