On March 5, the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship (LCF) held a seminar entitled ‘When the truth is silenced — freedom of religion and the Christian response to 21st-century rights discourses’. Billed as a seminar which would look at the impact of the law on religious freedom, the evening was chaired by the public policy officer of LCF, Andrea Williams.
Addressing the packed room of 150 or so, Williams introduced barrister Paul Diamond, who set the legal scene by reference to one of the numerous cases in which he has been instructed. Extrapolating from this one case several issues of general relevance, Diamond gave an insight into the convoluted world of employment rights as they applied to a Christian man who had been dismissed following his refusal to work on Sundays.
Williams then invited four guest speakers to talk about their experience of attempts to silence their proclamation of biblical truth in the past 12 months, often with accompanying high profile media coverage.
