“…The principal response to this -which has emerged in an un-planned and un-coordinated fashion -has been the deployment of a collective action frame built upon two primary assertions: first, that secularisation poses a serious threat to the social and moral probity of the nation, and second, that it represents a growing danger to religious freedoms. This approach, which draws on the salience of identity politics and a language of minority rights, contains strong similarities to (and, indeed, may well have been influenced by) the political strategy adopted by the Christian Right in the United States (on this see Jelen, 2005;Klemp, 2010;Thomas and Olson, 2012). 5 The first of these themes pulls together a number of interrelated points, maintaining that the decline of Christianity in Britain has led to a loss of social cohesion, the rise of a crude Christians are discriminated against in the public square … you've got a hundred years of a secular experiment that's gone all wobbly all over the place and people see religion as a threat to their power, to their influence and their world view (interview #3).…”