A Christian organisation has been ejected from an advice agencies group because it offers to pray for people in debt. Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has been ditched by AdviceUK, the largest network of independent advice agencies in the country, due to its view that prayer is ‘incompatible’ with the umbrella group’s conditions of membership. AdviceUK chief executive Steve Johnson said: ‘Advisers must not offer or impose their values.’ Andrea Williams of the Christian Legal Centre said the decision gives the false impression ‘that there is something wrong, something sinister, about being motivated by faith’. CAP says it is ‘committed to providing impartial help and advice to all members of society’ and has never made prayer a condition of its free service.
(See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ 3 September)
The hypocrisy of AdviceUK is quite astonishing; "AdviceUK chief executive Steve Johnson said: ‘Advisers must not offer or impose their values.’"
"You must not offer to pray! I will not have it! You must be like us atheists. We will not put up with you Christians! How dare you make an open offer to pray with someone who can easily say, 'No thank you'. You Christians will be silenced! Why can't you be tolerant like us and not impose your values?!"
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