The European Commission has called on the UK to end exemptions to equality laws that allow religious employers to discriminate on the grounds of sexual orientation.
In the News
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November 22nd, 2009
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November 21st, 2009
Shutting the office over Christmas could be seen as discriminatory by followers of some religions, according to a leading employers? group.
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November 21st, 2009
Two smiling child models featured on an atheist billboard are actually Evangelical Christians, it has been claimed.
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November 21st, 2009
The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins?s latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery he associates with religious baggage. With the slogan 'Please don?t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself', the youngsters with broad grins seem to be the perfect advertisement for the new atheism being promoted by Professor Dawkins and the British Humanist Association.
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November 21st, 2009
Hundreds of Muslim villagers in Egypt's south threw stones at a police station on Saturday where a Christian was being held on suspicion of assault, and they later burned and looted Christian-owned shops, witnesses said.
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November 21st, 2009
Roman Catholic bishops yesterday accused Britain?s chief prosecutor of encouraging people to break the country?s suicide laws.
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November 20th, 2009
Children as young as five are imitating sex acts at school because they are being allowed to stay up late and watch pornography, a senior MP has warned.
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November 20th, 2009
A few years ago, the London Guardian newspaper called Sweden the most successful society the world has ever known. But Sweden today is being transformed by a large influx of immigrants from the Middle East.
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November 20th, 2009
Christians aren't indoctrinating their children, just trying to make sense of the world, says George Pitcher.
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November 20th, 2009
Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way recognize same-sex couples.