If you chose to emulate the life of Christ, can you really expect to run to a tribunal if your cheek is slapped?
The vicar seeking to sue the Church of England for constructive dismissal has a curiously worldly attitude to his religious vocation.
David Cameron's idea that we are all too soft and self-pitying, want to be regarded as victims and feel entitled to live off state benefits may be more than a little exaggerated, but it is a state of mind that seems to have infected the vicar from Worcestershire who is seeking to sue the Church of England for constructive dismissal. The Rev Mark Sharpe, a 44-year-old father of four, claims that he and his family have been subjected to four years of cruel harassment, including various sinister threats, and having their dog poisoned, animal excrement smeared on their car, tyres slashed, telephone lines cut and heating oil stolen.
All this has been taking place in the supposedly idyllic rural village of Hanley Broadheath and, throughout the ordeal, he says, he has...
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