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OPEN LETTER FROM CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO THE PRIME MINISTER CONCERNING VACCINE
PASSPORT PROPOSALS



August, 2021

In July 2021, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Vaccines Minister Nadhim
Zahawi at different points announced the introduction in September of vaccine
passports for nightclubs and “other crowded venues”. We have thus decided to
re-open this letter for further signatures and we intend to resend it to the
Prime Minister and to all Members of Parliament in order to underline our
opposition to this scheme. If you are a leader in a church or a Christian
organisation and you have not yet signed, please consider adding your name.
Please also consider sharing this letter on your social media channels and in
any other appropriate ways. Thank you.

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To: The Prime Minister Boris Johnson

April, 2021

Dear Prime Minister,


As Christian leaders across a range of denominations, we continue to pray at
this time for your government “and all in high positions, so that we may lead a
quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity” (1 Timothy 2:2).

However, we write to you concerning an area of the most serious concern, namely
the potential introduction into our society of so-called “vaccine passports”
which have also been referred to as “COVID-status certificates” and “freedom
passes”. We are wholly opposed to this suggestion and wish to make three points
about the potential consideration of any scheme of this type.


Firstly, to make vaccination the basis of whether someone is allowed entry to a
venue, or participation in an activity, makes no logical sense in terms of
protecting others. If the vaccines are highly effective in preventing
significant disease, as seems to be the evidence from trial results to date,
then those who have been vaccinated have already received protection; there is
no benefit to them of other people being vaccinated. Further, since vaccines do
not prevent infection per se even a vaccinated person could in theory carry and
potentially pass on the virus, so to decide someone’s “safe non-spreader” status
on the basis of proof of their immunity to disease is spurious.

Secondly, the introduction of vaccine passports would constitute an unethical
form of coercion and violation of the principle of informed consent. People may
have various reasons for being unable or unwilling to receive vaccines currently
available including, for some Christians, serious issues of conscience related
to the ethics of vaccine manufacture or testing. We risk creating a two-tier
society, a medical apartheid in which an underclass of people who decline
vaccination are excluded from significant areas of public life. There is also a
legitimate fear that this scheme would be the thin end of the wedge leading to a
permanent state of affairs in which COVID vaccine status could be expanded to
encompass other forms of medical treatment and perhaps even other criteria
beyond that. This scheme has the potential to bring about the end of liberal
democracy as we know it and to create a surveillance state in which the
government uses technology to control certain aspects of citizens’ lives. As
such, this constitutes one of the most dangerous policy proposals ever to be
made in the history of British politics.


Finally, as Christian leaders we wish to state that we envisage no circumstances
in which we could close our doors to those who do not have a vaccine passport,
negative test certificate, or any other “proof of health”. For the Church of
Jesus Christ to shut out those deemed by the state to be social undesirables
would be anathema to us and a denial of the truth of the Gospel. The message we
preach is given by God for all people and consists in nothing other than the
free gift of grace offered in Christ Jesus, with the universal call to
repentance and faith in him. To deny people entry to hear this life-giving
message and to receive this life-giving ministry would be a fundamental betrayal
of Christ and the Gospel. Sincere Christian churches and organisations could not
do this, and as Christian leaders we would be compelled to resist any such Act
of Parliament vigorously.


We draw your attention to the recent Judicial Review overturning the Scottish
Government’s ban on public worship, which demonstrates that such
disproportionate prevention of the right to worship is a clear infringement
under Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights. We cannot see how
any attempt to prevent people gathering for worship on the basis of either
testing or non-vaccination would not similarly be ruled to be a breach. We agree
with those members of Parliament who have already voiced opposition to this
proposal: that it would be divisive, discriminatory and destructive to introduce
any such mandatory health certification into British society. We call on the
government to assert strongly and clearly that it will not contemplate this
illiberal and dangerous plan, not now and not ever.

Yours sincerely,

 * Rev Dr William JU Philip, Minister, The Tron Church Glasgow, Scotland
 * Rev David Johnston, Minister Emeritus, Presbyterian Church in Ireland,
   Ireland
 * Rev Dr Jamie Franklin, Curate, Church of England, Nottingham, England
 * Rev A Paul Levy, Minister, Ealing International Presbyterian Church, London,
   England
 * Rev Mez McConnell, Senior Minister, Niddrie Community Church, Director of
   20schemes, Director of A29 Church in Hard Places, Scotland
 * Mr Terence McCutcheon, Executive Director, Hope For Glasgow, Addiction
   Recovery Centre, Scotland

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