"Human rights" whackos threat to freedom in UK

Daily Mail:

Labour's policies on human rights have become a threat to freedom, the Archbishop of York said yesterday.

Dr John Sentamu suggested that the Government was ' sacrificing liberty in favour of an abused form of equality'.

The Archbishop said human rights did not work without a moral foundation, yet morality had been replaced by consumer desires.

He also warned against the growth of 'diktat and bureaucracy' which he said interfered with personal beliefs.

Dr Sentamu's broadside follows last week's powerful condemnation of Britain's 'broken' society by Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester. He argued that Christianity was the keystone of dignity, equality and freedom and without it society would collapse.

Dr Sentamu, who comes second in the CofE hierarchy, is a popular figure often tipped to succeed Dr Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.

His condemnation of human rights without religion, and his decision to point the finger at Labour, came in an address given to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

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I find it interesting that the strongest defenders of the faith in the UK or a Bishop from Pakistan and an archbishop from Africa. The Archbishop of Canterbury on the other hand appears to be more concerned about not offending Muslims than defending his faith.