.... But it is worth asking why this Test applies only to the receipt of government funding or the honour of government engagement.
Should not all those who hold ‘un-British views’ be dealt with appropriately? If it is right to tackle (say) the intolerance of equal rights for women, because ministers now believe there is a link between non-violent extremism and violent acts of terrorism, then a fortiori it must be right to confront any expression of dissent from state orthodoxy, even when that dissent is non-violent.
There are serious implications here for religious liberty which the Prime Minister (surrounded by ‘religiously illiterate, secularist advisers’) has not even begun to consider. [Archbishop Cranmer] Read more
