to think this is NOT persecuting Christians in this country

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But is instead reminding a professional that 'telling someone about Jesus' when they are about to have an operation is not part of their job

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4021094/Nurse-sacked-offering-pray-patients-despite-call-equality-watchdog-end-persecution-Christians.html?

Her job was not to ask people about their religion. Part of it was to get them to fill in a questionaiire which had a a question about religion.

"Mrs Kuteh said conversations sometimes arose if a patient failed to put anything in the box marked Religion, and she might ask them why and even tell them how her faith had helped her overcome adversity"

I can imagine the response from the DM if it had been a Muslim telling a patient about how being Muslim had helped them overcome adversity.

AIBU to think this has nothing to do with persecuting Christians in this country?

Posted too soon. I remember a case a few years back about another Christian who was tutoring a very ill child. The family were well aware of how ill their dc was and were atheists & very close.

The bloody woman kept trying to get the child to pray. Felt dc's salvation was at risk and that dc should convert. The family asked several times for her to stop, then reported her to the local authority. Eventually she got sacked.

That was put about as persecution of a poor Christian woman too. Arrogant, insensitive arses, both of them.

There's some wonderful Mail reader double standards in the comments. They keep saying, with no evidence whatsoever, that if she were preaching Islam she wouldn't have been sacked - when it's perfectly obvious that she would. But had the story been about a Muslim nurse, Mail readers would be spitting with rage that she dared to sue.

It's not persecution and I agree with Prawn - in fact I think she should be struck off and I disagree with Teresa May entirely (why ARE all PMs seemingly Christians?)

Her patients were harassed and targeted when vulnerable.

Thanks, bacon. I quite understand that some believers genuinely think that spreading their faith is beneficial to others. However, once such a person is told that complaints have been made against them, they must surely recognize that their interventions are unwelcome and, as such, must cease.

I used to know someone whose attempts to insert her faith into my life caused huge distress. My DM is the best sort of Christian and from her I learnt about the grave sin of spiritual pride. All these women are guilty of it.

I'm a Christian and think she was unprofessional. It's absurd to say we're persecuted. I can go to church without any fear, I can celebrate religious holidays without any fear etc

I came on to post exactly this! I'm a Christian, if people ask about my faith, I tell them. Unprompted sermons, especially just before an operation, are uncalled for. It had been flagged up several times and she continued to ignore her bosses.
Persecution my arse, perhaps she'd like to talk to some Iraqi Christians about what it's actually like to be persecuted.

I'm a Christian and work for a Christian charity. One of our key policies which is strictly enforced is that we don't talk to people about our faith, if they ask questions we can answer them but we are not their to try convert people.

The nurse was being really unprofessional.