I read the Anglican newspaper, "Church Times", each week. There is much of interest to Christians from all denominations, and this week`s issue was particularly fruitful.
It transpires that an elderly anti-abortion protester, who had been sending graphic photographic images of a dismembered foetus to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Norfolk has subsequently been removed from the hospital`s waiting list for a hip replacement operation.
The Chief executive of the NHS trust concerned has said "The NHS has a zero tolerance policy to the abuse of staff..............We take such matters extremely seriously, and exercised our right to decline treatment to him for anything other than life-threatening conditions".
So Mr Ted Atkinson, aged 74, was not only sent to prison for 28 days, but has also been condemned to continue enduring pain from his hip.
I do not condone his targeting of individual members of staff at the hospital, but his punishment seems extreme and the actions of the NHS Trust where he should have had his operation seem completely disproportionate to his "crime" - after all, this old man had the temerity to highlight the gruesome fact that seven million babies have been deliberately killed with the legal sanction and financial support of the State.
I bet he would not have been targeted for such punishment if he had belonged to an ethnic minority or a minority religious group.
Sigh.
I fear the days of being actively persecuted for being a Christian are very close at hand............
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