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  • Scottish kids are being encouraged to explore “queerness” and question whether they are a boy or a girl, in a project paid for by taxpayers.

    ‘Gendersaurus Rex’ is an “artistic research project” exploring how ‘gender, feminism, sexuality, queerness and difference’ can be incorporated into live performance for children.

    It was commissioned by Imaginate, a performing arts group which is subsidised by the Scottish Government and the European Union.

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  • Hundreds of Anglicans have signed up to a website signalling their dissent at the Church of England's teaching on homosexuality.

    Lambeth110.com was launched on Tuesday and hours later more than 250 individuals and organisations had signed up. The site was prompted by an initial "partial list" of clergy known to be in same-sex relationships or who have officiated over gay unions, which was released by the conservative lobby group GAFCON UK.

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  • I was born in Tembisa, the second largest township in South Africa.

    Like many in our part of Africa, I was born into the Roman Catholic Church, and our family, like many, practiced both Romanism and ancestral worship. Growing up I was a troubled child. Rebellious. Fatherless. Poor. It wasn’t until my mom was born again that hope was born.

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    After breaking through the clutter of the Roman Catholic Church, and gaining freedom from the worship of ancestors, my mom would take us to church with her each Sunday. I attended church every week (sometimes by force) and Sunday school. I knew Scripture by heart. Nevertheless, I was not saved. I lived a life of bitterness, hurt, and loneliness. And I had no father-figure to guide me.

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  • Why are the experiences of Scottish Muslims different from the experiences of English Muslims? In his new book Stefano Bonino looks at the peculiar sociopolitical environment in Scotland and how the country can serve as a model for integration in other European countries.

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  • Baroness Cox, a leading religious freedom campaigner, and her party of church and charity leaders, avoided an attack by armed Islamist Fulani herdsmen, by a matter of minutes on Monday 14 November.

    Baroness Cox and Bishop Stewart Ruch III, of the Upper Midwest Diocese, were visiting Jos Plateau State where Islamist cattle herdsmen have become an even greater danger than the notorious terrorist group Boko Haram. 

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  • British college students who want to run pro-life clubs on campus are facing an increasing amount of hostility and censorship, the Alliance of Pro-life Students reports.

    Right now, the British pro-life group is working with students at three universities where their pro-life efforts are under attack. The pro-lifers are up against pro-abortion feminists who have been petitioning to either prevent pro-life clubs from forming or disband the ones that already exist.

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  • Amazon is launching a TV ad in which an imam and a vicar exchange gifts, before the Black Friday shopping bonanza during which consumers will spend billions with the internet retailer.

    The company, which is launching the campaign in the US, UK and Germany, said it was aware of the sensitivities of portraying an inter-faith friendship between religious community leaders.

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  • A Christian couple blocked from adopting their two foster children because of their views on same-sex parenting have said their right to free speech has been infringed

    The couple, who cannot be named, had an adoption request refused after saying a child needed a "mummy and a daddy".

    They have appealed against the decision, saying it was not in the "children's best interests".

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  • An Anglican group has been criticised for publishing a list of gay clergy members in the Church of England.

    The list was released by GAFCON UK, and included clergy known to be in a same-sex relationship.

    It also included clergy who have presided over same-sex unions.

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  • Ashers’ defeat at the Court of Appeal risks restricting everyone’s freedom of conscience and speech, a barrister has warned.

    Ashers Baking Company was told last month that it had broken the law by declining to decorate a cake with a pro-gay marriage campaign slogan for LGBT activist Gareth Lee.

    Writing for the UK Human Rights Blog, Alasdair Henderson backed comments from newspapers and homosexual rights campaigner Peter Tatchell criticising the ruling.

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