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  • Life Site: Carphone Warehouse apologizes for Irish 'pro-choice' advertising campaign
    November 17th, 2016

    The Chairman of major phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, has apologised for offence caused by the company’s ‘pro-choice’ advertising campaign which appeared to be taking a position on the abortion debate in Ireland.

    The massive advertising campaign, which used a ‘We’re Pro-Choice’ tagline, led to sharp criticism from pro-life advocates, and to pro-life protests outside Carphone Warehouse retail units. Large numbers of pro-life consumers also contacted the company to say they would be bringing their custom elsewhere.

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  • Sky News: Second Muslim school told to raise standards by Ofsted
    November 17th, 2016

    A second private Muslim school has been told to improve its standards following a long-running Sky News investigation.

    Education watchdog Ofsted has ruled that Zakaria Muslim Girls' High School in Batley in West Yorkshire is not meeting independent school standards and requires improvement.

    A previous report into child safety at the school was withdrawn by the regulator after Sky News revealed the inspector had not talked to pupils or teachers because he was told they were celebrating the Eid religious festival.

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  • National Post: Doctors seeing an increase in preschoolers convinced they are in the wrong body
    November 17th, 2016

    Olivia loves Disney’s Frozen princesses, all things sparkly, bright tights and ballet. During her family’s Cuban vacation last summer, she danced in the children’s “mini-disco” before the evening shows, twirling and leaping across the stage. One night another guest turned to her parents, exclaiming, “Your daughter is the girliest girl I’ve ever seen!”

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  • Standard: Campaigners call for London to have its first museum of gay history
    November 17th, 2016

    Pink filing cabinets will be placed at London landmarks by campaigners calling for the capital to get its first dedicated museum of gay history.

    The decorated cabinets symbolise millions of stories and events involving LGBT Londoners that lie buried in official archives.

    Campaigners want them to be unearthed to chronicle the city’s battle for equality and are appealing for support to mark next year’s 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which relaxed laws against homosexuality.

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  • ABC: Voluntary euthanasia: South Australian Parliament knocks back Death With Dignity euthanasia bill
    November 17th, 2016

    Voluntary euthanasia has been knocked back in South Australian Parliament for the 15th time after a marathon late session in the House of Assembly overnight.

    The bill initially passed a second reading stage with a vote of 27 to 19, leading to a debate that continued up until about 4:00am.

    But the Death with Dignity bill from Liberal MP Duncan McFetridge was examined clause by clause and a conscience vote was tied at 23 votes for and against. 

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  • ABC: Taiwanese Protest for, Against Same-Sex Marriage Bill
    November 17th, 2016

    Thousands of Taiwanese protested Thursday outside the island's legislature both for and against a bill that could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.

    Organizers estimated that more than 20,000 people protested, carried placards, flew flags and chanted slogans as lawmakers deliberated the bill inside.

    Most were affiliated with conservative religious and social groups that chartered buses to bring protesters to the capital, Taipei.

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  • Express: 'We will multiply our numbers' Muslim migrants aim to outbreed Christians, translator says
    November 17th, 2016

    A TRANSLATOR living in Germany has revealed that Muslim migrants believe the country "should be Islamised", according to a new report.

    After working in migrant centres Germany for several years, the translator claims a number of the Muslim migrants she has spoken to have revealed a hatred for Christians and are determined to destroy the religion.

    The 39-year-old translator revealed that despite her Christian beliefs she is often presumed to be Muslim and – as a result – Muslim migrants often confide in her and tell her about their dislike towards Christians.

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  • Guardian: Justin Welby to help UK thinktank build vision of post-Brexit economy
    November 17th, 2016

    The archbishop of Canterbury will spend the next two years as part of a commission launched by a left-leaning thinktank that aims to rewrite the rules for Britain’s post-Brexit economy.

    Justin Welby will join other leading figures including the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, and the chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, Sir Charlie Mayfield, on the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) programme that will seek remedies for six key UK weaknesses.

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  • Times (£): Who decides matters of life or death? by Frances Gibb
    November 17th, 2016

    Judges no longer put on their black caps to sentence people to death. They do, however, still make life and death decisions. The task, which falls to judges usually sitting in the Court of Protection, involves deciding whether death is in the best interests of an individual who can no longer decide for themselves. And as one such judge, Mr Justice Baker, said recently, unlike the death penalty, such decisions can affect anyone.

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  • Guardian: Gay cake case may be heading for UK supreme court
    November 16th, 2016

    Northern Ireland’s attorney general has applied for leave to appeal to the supreme court in London to review a ruling which found a Belfast bakery guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a pro-gay marriage cake.

    The intervention by John Larkin, QC the region’s top law officer, means the supreme court may review last month’s decision in the court of appeal in Belfast, which upheld a guilty verdict against Ashers Bakery. The Northern Ireland appeal court will hear the attorney general’s application next Tuesday.

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