The early Christians paid a huge price for refusing to accept laws that they deemed went contrary to their beliefs, primarily that of the divinisation of the emperor.

Today, Christian parents and teachers are being asked to teach their children that marriage is not a life-long, indissoluble union between a man and a woman, that a baby can be the result of a technical procedure in a laboratory and not following the loving embrace between the parents, that homosexual behaviour is not gravely immoral and deeply offensive to God, that marriage between people of the same sex and that between people of a different sex are the same and that God did not create us ‘male’ and ‘female’.

Christian parents and teachers whose faith is central to the lives they lead will certainly never impart these teachings and are willing to pay the price for refusing to do so.