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Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, fancies himself as the oracle of authoritative common sense. The only thing that shuts him up is his own foot, which he plants in his mouth almost every time he opens it. His latest claim is that there is a cabal of politically correct civil servants who are keeping Syrian Christian refugees out of this country for fear of offending Muslims.
He has been guided to this conclusion by Paul Diamond, a barrister with a record of mostly failure in bringing cases alleging discrimination against Christians.
Almost all Diamond’s most publicised cases have been brought to defend the right of Christians to discriminate against gay people. When this is denied them, he claims they are themselves discriminated against. So his grasp of this kind of logic may be questioned. Nonetheless, there is a possible case that the government is discriminating against Christian refugees. It goes like this.