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Boys who think they are girls will be allowed to join the Guides for the first time in the organisation's 107-year history.
Adult men who also identify their gender as female could become leaders too under radical new proposals to the traditional single-sex policy of girlguiding.
The details were revealed in a document sent to all leaders this week, which explained how members would be accepted on the gender they "self-identify" with, rather than their biological sex.
The Turnbull government's proposed version of marriage equality would further entrench discrimination by allowing civil celebrants and service providers to refuse to undertake gay weddings, the peak law body says.
The Law Council of Australia will on Monday tell a parliamentary inquiry the proposed laws would allow discrimination against same-sex couples on "no proper basis" and undermine fundamental principles of the law.
Church of England bishops are proposing to turn a blind eye to gay clergy who breach its rules by having sex, in an attempt to avert a rift over how it treats gay people.
The church would replace the existing system where lesbian and gay clergy are asked to promise to be celibate when they apply to be ordained, change jobs or seek a promotion including becoming a bishop.
Under the proposal, to be considered tomorrow by the House of Bishops, gay clergy would still be expected to be celibate but would no longer be questioned about their private lives.
A leading Conservative MP fears the government’s preoccupation with Brexit is holding up vital plans to make sex and relationships education (SRE) compulsory in all schools.
Maria Miller, chair of the women and equalities committee, which produced a damning report about sexual harassment and violence in schools, has launched a campaign to press the government to take swift action. She has called an adjournment debate in the Commons on Monday to try to build momentum.
An Oxford theological college has asked students to avoid calling God "He" and to replace "mankind" with "humankind", in an attempt to counteract gender bias.
Wycliffe Hall, which trains Church of England clergy, has produced an "inclusive language policy" for staff and students. This recommends that "the one who" be used instead of "He" in references to God and advocates choosing hymns in which references to "son" can be changed to "child".
An 'aggressive' preacher was told to leave the centre of Manchester by police after complaints.
Officers are currently investigating whether the man committed any offences.
He was issued with a 'dispersal notice' - part of the Anti Social Behaviour Act.
A top London university has admitted to spying on its staff and students as part of government efforts to prevent radicalisation on campus.
A notice on the King's College London (KCL) email login page warns members that emails can be "monitored and recorded" under the Government's controversial anti-terror strategy Prevent.
Members of the KCL Students' Union have called the measures a violation of trust, adding: "Students who have not committed any crimes are being treated as suspects".
In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Roe vs. Wade that a woman’s right to privacy includes the right to terminate the life of her unborn child.
Today, in 2017, as a result, sixty million American lives have been ended in the very womb that was giving them life. In some sense, every American has become a victim of this injustice, but the tragic effects have been disproportionately devastating on the black community. It is not the God of the Bible who has been driving this murderous American system from 1973 until today. So who has?
The venue for the declaration of the "Islamic State" had been carefully chosen. The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul was a fitting location for the restoration of a "caliphate" pledged to the destruction of its enemies. It was built in 1172 by Nur al-Din al-Zengi, a warrior famed for his victories over the Crusaders. When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended the pulpit in July 2014 and proclaimed his followers to be "the backbone of the camp of faith and the spearhead of its trench", he was consciously following in Nur al-Din’s footsteps. The message could not have been clearer. The Crusaders were back and needed defeating.
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. In Islamic State’s propaganda, they certainly are. Sayings attributed to Muhammad that foretold how the armies of Islam would defeat the armies of the Cross serve their ideologues as a hall of mirrors. What happened in the Crusades is happening now; and what happens now foreshadows what is to come.