The Ransomed

Today I read in the Telegraph about a mother who has been restricted by the courts from taking her child to pro-Nazi rallies, and from encouraging her child to follow her in her “ultra right-wing views.” In the paper, John Faulks said that “freedom of speech is only allowed when it does not impinge upon the rights of an individual” (paraphrase from memory).

Similarly, the government has recently been cracking down on bikie gangs. It is now illegal for the outlawed gangs in question to congregate as a group.

Although I think that these are good outcomes, I am disturbed by the trend. How long is it until it is wrong for a mother to share her “ultra right-wing” Christian beliefs with her child? In most of modern thought, for instance, to say that homosexual behaviour is an abomination to God is considered right-wing and hateful. Even the commentators on the Telegraph article I linked have associated the mother with religion:

I suppose she is as loopy as religious nuts who preach domination and draconian law every friday to their whole community
Posted by: Real Life of Sydney 7:16am today

She can just take them to the Catholic Church instead.
Posted by: Tierp 6:32am today

I believe we are coming to a time of increased intolerance toward religious belief in our society, with a particular persecution of Christianity. May the Lord God bless His church as we continue to proclaim His Word without fear.