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The Un-Christian Cross

March 18, 2012

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11:32 am

Rod Dreher

You’ve heard, I take it, about the British subjects who are appealing to the European Court of Human Rights to defend their right to wear a Christian cross at work, against their employers’ rules. The British government has taken the other side, saying, get this, that there is no religious issue in play here because Christianity doesn’t require its adherents to wear a cross. Ridiculous! David Gibson rolls his eyes at that, and snarks that “we wouldn’t dare impede the sacred right of commerce.”

Perhaps he should have said “rite”…

Who was it that said you can always tell what’s most important to a society by the use to which they put their tallest buildings?

about the author

Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.

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