The evangelising Christian Institute, not a body which you could ever accuse of being non-fundamentalist, is cock-a-hoop because two hoteliers have been 'cleared' of offences with which they had been charged under legislation normally used to dole out ASBOs - offences against public order.
The fact that this case was ever brought to court, and under this particular bit of legislation, is a disgrace. It was not a clash of faiths, but of personalities, and hoteliers who want to stay in business need to remember that the paying guest is always right.
The baying mob of placard-waving hirelings demonstrating outside the court do no service to Christianity, but serve only to further the twin causes of secularism and barbarism, which thoughtful Muslims as well as thoughtful Christians and Jews - people of the great Abrahamic faiths - fear and despise.
So once again the zealots have handed a great story to an increasingly secular and sneering press. Well, jolly well done, CI. Where did you all go to school? Little Rock?
For 'secular and sneering' I slightly misquote Richard Morrison, Times columnist and music critic, but his piece today is well worth reading.
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