Christians need protection in law

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/george_pitcher/blog/2009/02/12/christians_need_protection_in_law

[Telegraph] 13 Feb 2009--It looks like we could be in for a plague of stories about Christians being discriminated against for their faith. Hot on the heels of the prayerful Nurse Caroline Petrie comes the truly awful sounding tale of Jennie Cain and her five-year-old daughter Jasmine, who was scolded at school for talking to a classmate about Jesus.

Now we should be careful of the context here. I've got into a right old lather in the past for what sounded like dreadful treatment of one my children at the hands of an apparently tormenting teacher, only to find out that my little darling had been perfectly revolting and the teacher had behaved entirely reasonably.

For all I know, little Jasmine might have been frightening a child of another faith with stories of the Day of Judgment. But what is beyond doubt is that her mother, who works at the school as a receptionist, sent a private email from her home to church friends asking for their prayers, only to be hauled in front of the headmaster, who had somehow acquired a copy of her email, and threatened with the sack.