What do the right to wear the cross as a declaration of the wearer’s faith and the Government’s intention of legalising gay marriage, despite the firm opposition of most Christians, have in common? Answer, the growing perception that the Coalition Government is hostile to the Christian religion. Is this really what David Cameron wants? If he doesn’t want the idea to get about that he and his Government are anti-Christian, he is going to have to ask himself how it comes about that he is rapidly alienating most of us. As Alexander Boot puts it in a Daily Mail article headlined “Is this the most aggressively atheistic government in Britain's history?”, “Our (Conservative!) government”, he writes, “has upheld employers' rights to sack any employee for wearing a visible cross or a crucifix. This is an outrage”: