Lord Carey attacks PM David Cameron over Christian ‘support’

BBC News [UK]
30 March 2013

The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, has accused David Cameron of making Christians feel marginalised.

He said it was a “bit rich” for the prime minister to tell religious leaders to oppose secularisation.

This follows comments made by the PM at a pre-Easter Downing Street reception for faith leaders.

A Downing Street spokesman rejected the criticism, saying Mr Cameron valued “the profound contribution” Christianity had made to UK life.

But Lord Carey wrote in the Daily Mail that the government seemed to be “aiding and abetting” aggressive secularisation.

He also said Mr Cameron had done more than any other recent political leader to increase Christian anxieties.

Many Christians doubted the sincerity of Mr Cameron’s support of Christians’ right to practise their faith, he said…

…”The danger I believe that the government is courting with its approach both to marriage and religious freedom is the alienation of a large minority of people who, only a few years ago, would have been considered pillars of society.”…

Read the entire article at BBC News.

 

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