For true Christians, God's law is always God's law

This letter is published in today's Derby Telegraph:

For true Christians, God's law is always God's law

Just what has happened to this once great Christian country of ours? It seems, and not just to me, that if you are not a Muslim or gay, you do not command any kind of respect.

Well, I for one am not a Muslim and I am not gay. I am a Christian that believes in the Bible. You know the book, it has God's word in it, but more importantly it has his law in it as well. The same law that the State is telling us to ignore while we teach children homosexuality is normal and OK.

Would they dare to tell a Muslim to ignore the Koran? I don't think so.

The Bible states: "You must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman, it is a detestable thing."

I personally have nothing against gay people but, like others, I am sick and tired of the coverage they get on television and the papers.

Now the State has gone one step further by banning a Christian couple from fostering children because of their religious beliefs about homosexuality, so does this mean that all Christians who will not break God's law are banned?

Does Christianity, the religion of our Queen, count for nothing in this once great nation of ours?

There is also the question of how you can be a minister of the church and be gay – I thought that ministers of the church were supposed to teach from the Bible.

You cannot cherry-pick pieces that suit the individual. If you are a true Christian, God's law is God's law, which, if they minister to a congregation, they should be. Can anyone go to our ministers of justice and proclaim I don't accept that law but I will accept that one because it suits me?

I think enough is enough. If you are gay, you are gay, I do not want to know about it. But when it encroaches on our civil liberties, it is time for all Christians to stand up and be counted to regain the respect we deserve.

Alan Walker

Glendon Street

Stanley Common