Protesting Against "Intolerance"

CHRISTIAN BROADCASTER PROTESTS SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY’S ‘INTOLERANCE’

A Christian radio broadcaster in Scotland is taking a stand against Edinburgh University in what he is calling “extreme intolerance for Christianity.”

The university is preparing to ban Bibles from residence halls in response to student association protests that Bibles are a means of discrimination against non-Christians.

The university had a longstanding practice of placing Gideon Bibles in each new student’s rooms. Last year prayer was banned from graduation.

Radio broadcaster Ian Dunlop, chairman of Scotland’s first full-time Christian radio station, Revival FM, says banning Bibles, rather than preventing discrimination against students of other faiths, “flies in the face of everything that we stand for here in the U.K. as a nation standing for freedom and tolerance.”

Dunlop compared the offence to “the days of the pilgrim fathers” when the founders of the U.S. “found themselves being persecuted and having to leave for the New World because of the lack of tolerance of faith in the U.K. at that time.”

Scotland’s Stirling University recently abandoned plans to remove 6,000 Bibles from campus due to a Christian student’s protests.

(Agape Press)

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