Victor Hugo once said: "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.” Queen Victoria once explained to an African emissary enquiring about the source of England’s supremacy in the world that the Bible was the secret to England’s greatness. However, today you can be arrested for publicly reading the Bible in England, if you read a Biblical passage deemed offensive to others. For example, a Watford pastor, Steve Maile, was arrested for reading and preaching on Biblical passages that were offensive to Muslims, and a Bristol pastor, Dia Moodley, was arrested for reading and preaching on Biblical passages that were offensive to the transgendered.

If you wonder how the Brits got themselves into such a sticky wicket with the Scriptures, you might want to look back on the March 2, 2017 conviction of two British street preachers. Both Michael Stockwell and Michael Overd were convicted by a Bristol Magistrate Court for the crime of preaching that Jesus Christ is the only way to God. According to the court, not only were Stockwell and Overd both guilty of “intentionally alarming” the public with their preaching, but they also deserved the $2,500.00 fine they were both ordered to pay. After his clients’ conviction, Andrea Williams, of the Christian Legal Centre, which funded the street preachers' defense, claimed that the court’s outlandish ruling officially outlawed the Bible as offensive and its contents as illegal speech, which henceforth would prohibit the Bible from being spoken in public.

In addition to arresting street preachers, Christians praying silently at abortion clinics are also being arrested in England today. For example, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who has long prayed at abortion clinics, in hopes of saving the lives of unborn children, was recently arrested near a Birmingham, England abortion clinic for the crime of praying. Yes, praying at an abortion clinic is a crime, under a new British protest prohibition statute, which criminalizes prayer as an unlawful form of protest. 

In light of all of the above, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Simeon Chandra’s car insurance has just be revoked by the British insurance company GoSkippy for two “Jesus loves you” stickers taped to each side of his car. Apparently, in Great Britain, there’s no longer any guarantee of freedom of religion or of freedom of speech for British Christians, who can now be censored and coerced by such things as the revoking of their car insurance or, even worse, the threat of criminal prosecution for preaching or praying in public. While it’s still legal for Muslims to shout “Allahu Akbar” in England, it appears that it is now against the law for Christians to say, “Jesus loves you.”