Picture this scene. It's Sunday morning in your local church and the second hymn has just finished.
As the page number for the Bible reading is announced, more than a dozen people scattered throughout the congregation climb onto their chairs, unroll banners and begin chanting insults and obscenities so that the pastor is unable to make himself heard. A second group bursts through the main doors and parade round the church throwing leaflets as they shout at the congregation. What happens next?
The legal position
Christians everywhere need to be aware that pressure groups complaining against the church's stand on a number of moral issues are al-ready doing just this kind of thing. Do you or your church need to consider what is an appropriate, desirable or even legal response in such a situation? Each fellowship will obviously have its own thoughts on many aspects of such an intrusion, but all should at least understand what the legal position is.
