(Editor’s Note: David sent out an email this afternoon containing the statement below and has given us permission to reprint it as an open letter.)

Forgive me for contacting you in this way but an event of enormous significance in the history of the UK has just occurred – and it is in danger of going by unnoticed.

This week a Judge gave a ruling against a Christian couple who had appealed for the right to be allowed to adopt/foster. I was not surprised that they lost the case, but it is the basis of the decision, which is now a formal legal opinion and case law, which is astonishing.

I won’t go into all the details but the judgment was made on the grounds that Britain is not a Christian nation, and that our laws now have no basis in Judeo-Christian teaching. Indeed as can be seek from the extract below – the Christian faith is officially defined as being solely subjective, being incapable of proof and evidence.

•The Judea-Christian tradition, stretching over many centuries, has no doubt exerted a profound influence upon the judgment of law-makers as to the objective merits of this or that social policy, and the liturgy and practice of the established church are to some extent prescribed by law. But the conferment of any legal protection or preference upon a particular substantive moral position on the ground only that it is espoused by the adherents of a particular faith, however long its tradition, however rich its culture, is deeply unprincipled; it imposes compulsory law not to advance the general good on objective grounds, but to give effect to the force of subjective opinion. This must be so, since, in the eye of everyone save the believer, religious faith is necessarily subjective, being incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence. It may, of course, be true, but the ascertainment of such a truth lies beyond the means by which laws are made in a reasonable society.

One or two newspapers have picked up on this – for example the following in the Scotsman. But very few people here realise the significance of what has happened.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion/Michael-Kelly-Court39s-decision-is.6727522.jp

The importance of all this cannot be understated! I have never come across such an explicit anti-Christian statement in a court of law (a court by the way which relies on witnesses swearing on the Bible). The implications are enormous. This absolute privatisation of Christianity, and its exclusion from the law of the land, means that we will be subject to the arbitrary whims of judges and the fashions of the day (the judge in this case takes it as read that any child who is brought up and not taught that homosexuality is normal will be damaged – the judge of course does not tell us the basis for this, or whether we should also consider polygamy or incest to be ‘normal’ as well).

Anyway I am writing my friends in the US to ask you to help us.

Firstly could you please make this judgment as widely known as possible (in the month that President Obama as re-written the constitution of the US by telling us that marriage between one man and one woman only is ‘unconstitutional’ – it is essential that you see where you are going in the US). Please pass this on to the ‘gatekeepers’ in the US.

Secondly could you ask people to pray. We will be publicising and challenging this as much as possible. In particular we will be asking the Scottish parliament and law courts NOT to accept English law. I spoke at the Scottish parliament last week and got a tremendous reception – but overall the Christian MSP’s there are frightened to take on the homosexual lobby and in an astonishing development it is the British Conservative party who are pushing for homosexual marriage.

Solas CPC – www.solas-cpc.org – will be working with CARE and the Catholic Church to pressure the Scottish Parliament. This was VERY successful with the debate on euthanasia – which we won overwhelmingly. I have a meeting with three key leaders next week to plan our strategy.

Meanwhile we have released a ‘Fleabyte’ which addresses the subject – you can get it on the Solas website and on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2wYBvEO_s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

On a wider note – have a look at David Meredith doing an interview on Solas – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfJgBYVqbho

Brothers and sisters we are really under pressure. There is a battle like I have never known. I am constantly being threatened and it is, as we say in Scots, ‘a sair fecht’ (a tough fight!). Yet in the midst of the battle people are being converted and doors are opening. The Holy Spirit is at work.

Today for example I did a radio debate with a lapsed Anglican vicar, Mark Vernon, whose latest book is advocating agnosticism. It was a complete massacre (why is liberalism so intellectually vacuous?!) – but the fact is that these teachings and opinions are what holds sway in much of the church. Rob Bell is causing chaos here as well.

I am worn out as well….the opportunities are coming all the time but we just can’t take them all. This Saturday for example I am off to address a Church of Scotland Presbytery in Skye about the future of the Gospel and the Church in Scotland; on Sunday I am back preaching here, and then on Monday speaking to several hundred people in Queens University Belfast. Please, pray for us. (Editor’s Note: if someone has the time and financial resources to travel to Dundee to help David with chores at his church that would be wonderful!)

David Robertson
Solas Centre for Public Christianity
St Peters Free Church
4 St Peter St, Dundee, DD1 4 JJ.

David Robertson is a minister in the Free Church of Scotland. He is currently serving as the pastor of St. Peter’s Church, Dundee (a pulpit once filled by Robert Murray M’Cheyne. He serves as editor for the Free Church of Scotland Monthly magazine, as well as being chaplain for the University of Dundee.