"It has become fashionable for politicians to interfere in internal Church matters (..) Christian Democrats believe that politicians should keep their fingers from the state church for several reasons.

Firstly, because it is an institution responsible for compassionate care and should speak to the individual conscience. The church is an individual voice in the political system. It places the mercy before justice and the law. The national church is not a state power, but it is a pillar of the whole democratic structure as long as it is made toothless. Therefore, it is misunderstood, when politicians expect to have bought the right to determine their attitudes, opinions and theology, simply because it receives state aid.

Secondly, religion is a part of people's right to define their world and way of life without the interference of politically correct attitudes. If you disagree, only dialogue can be challenging - not political correctness. When politicians start legislating on religious aspects, they have crossed the border for the right to personal opinion. Next stop will be a regulation of all religious movements, customs and thinking. It is scary that a party that calls itself liberal, reveals itself as a defender of control of the spiritual Denmark.

If politicians continue to determine the content of theology, it might become forbidden to preach that Jesus is the only path to God, because it might offend people." Grenov says.

"This message is intended only to ask for protection of the freedom of religion - not to argue for or against certain theological positions. This is the church's own problem area. Conversely, the Liberal Party Youth national chairman Jacob Engel Schmidt and Liberal culture man Troels Christensen have advocated political management of the theological content of the national church because of their  short-sighted belief that one can legislate on individual religious view of life. In such a scenario the national church of Denmark would become a parody of the Soviet Russian state church, with the slight difference that politicians in Denmark do not make any effort to hide their management."

Grenov thinks that an issue that may be used to encroach upon religious freedom is that of  so called equal rights for homosexuals: "In keeping with the parliament's current majority Troels Christensen and Jakob Engel Schmidt continued in the delusion that equality is synonymous with equal rights for all. If we understand that people are created in God's image - as a man and woman - marriage reflects God, notwithstanding the fact that no parents are perfect. It is this relationship that is blessed. If the church refuses to marry same sex couples, it has nothing to do with discrimination. Such policy requirements [requiring the church to marry same sex couples] are an assault on religious freedom, freedom of thought and not least state church as an independent part of the foundation of Danish democracy."

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