Test 19
“CHRISTIAN FREEDOM AND IDENTITY IN THE UK TODAY “
by Pastor Peter Simpson
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:12)
On March 7th the Protestant Conference held its bi-annual meeting at the Lord’s Church in St. John’s Wood in central London. Pastor Peter Simpson addressed the subject of ‘Christian freedoms and Christian identity in the UK today’.
He began his address by referring to some recent encouragements on the freedom front, including the vindication of the Darlington nurses and Nurse Jennifer Melle, following their disputes within the NHS over transgenderism ideology.
Pastor Simpson’s paper then went on to deal with four areas of ongoing concern regarding the liberties of Bible-believing Christians.
1) Freedom for open air preachers on the public highway and in multicultural contexts;
2) the November 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling concerning school assemblies and R.E. classes in Northern Ireland that they must be carried out in an “objective, critical and pluralistic manner”;
3) the Government’s desire to redefine the concept of Islamophobia, giving it the new title of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’, and the potential lying therein to restrict legitimate Christian critiquing of Islam;
4) the Government’s intention to press ahead with the banning of ‘conversion therapy’ practices.