Could British Christians Be Sued for Having Crucifixes in Their Home?

While everyone is discussing the Conservative party victories in the recent British local elections, one begins to wonder what kind of society is being conserved ?

Church care homes could be forced to remove crucifixes from their walls in case they offend “atheist cleaners” under the new Equality Bill, Catholic bishops have warned.

The way the bill is written means non-Christians could sue for harassment if church authorities do not remove religious imagery, according to Monsignor Andrew Summersgill, general secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

There’s more:

The bishops are also worried that they Equality Bill will establish what they believe would amount to a “hierarchy of rights”, with the rights of homosexuals overruling those of religious expression.

We’ll have to see how this develops.