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  • Times (£): Chief medical officer tells doctors: think before treating terminally ill
    September 12th, 2016

    Doctors should pause before treating terminally ill patients and consider whether it would be better to let them die peacefully, according to Scotland’s chief medical officer.

    Dr Catherine Calderwood wants a shift in emphasis among hospital doctors, many of whom, she believes, step in to treat the terminally ill without thinking about what the patient really wants.

    Dr Calderwood’s view, which she put forward in her annual report Realistic Medicine, has been supported by other senior medical figures, many of whom want to see a change in the way hospital doctors approach very ill patients and their families.

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  • Archbishop Cranmer: Good Disagreement: report fellow Christians to the police for daring to disagree
    September 11th, 2016

    It isn’t entirely clear what happened to 1 Corinthians 6 in the Christian pursuit of Good Disagreement. It appears that if certain liberal/progressive Christians disagree with conservative/traditionalist ones, they think it better to run to the police rather than take their complaint directly to them, and engage in reasoned discussion, prayer and mature fellowship.

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  • TIME: Oxford English Dictionary Adds 'Merica, Gender-Fluid and Squee
    September 11th, 2016

    The editors at the Oxford English Dictionary typically wait and watch for years before giving new words a chance to be included in their hallowed pages. So when those editors decide to add the likes of squee — Internet slang expressing delight or excitement — you know there is nothing willy-nilly (or shilly-shally) about it. That term, like hundreds of others going live on Monday, has been weighed, measured and determined to be a notable event in the history of the English language, silly as it may sound.

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  • Scotsman: Named Person opponents angry over legal advice 'secrecy'
    September 11th, 2016

    Anti-Named Person campaigners are angered that the Scottish Government has refused to disclose the legal advice it received before the scheme came to grief in the UK’s highest court.

    Opponents of the scheme are attempting to use Freedom of Information legislation to obtain the legal advice taken by the government on the move to give every child in Scotland a named guardian. The government is blocking the attempt on the grounds of client confidentiality.

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  • Guardian: Thousands march in Mexico against proposal to allow same-sex marriage
    September 11th, 2016

    Tens of thousands of people across Mexico marched on Saturday to protest against gay marriage, challenging President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposal to recognise same-sex marriage throughout the traditionally conservative country.

    The marches were called by the National Front for the Family, a coalition of civil society organisations and various religious groups, and continued throughout the day from Mexico's far north to the Yucatan peninsula.

    Same-sex marriage is permitted in Mexico City, as well as in several states including Coahuila, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, Nayarit, Chihuahua and Sonora.

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  • Times (£): 'Met ignored extremism among my fellow Muslim officers'
    September 11th, 2016

    A former counterterrorism sergeant has attacked the Metropolitan police for failing to tackle extremist views among some of its Muslim officers for fear of being labelled "Islamophobic".

    Javaria Saeed, a practising Muslim who worked in Scotland Yard’s counterterrorism division, complained to her bosses after she witnessed a fellow Muslim officer saying female genital mutilation (FGM) — illegal in the UK since 1985 — was a "clean and honourable practice" and "shouldn’t be criminalised".

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  • Telegraph: Traditions such as Christmas celebrations will die out unless people stand up for British values, government review finds
    September 10th, 2016

    British laws and traditions such as the celebration of Christmas are under threat and must be vigorously upheld to stop ethnic segregation dividing society, according to major government review.

    Waves of immigration have rapidly changed the character of some state schools and left residents in parts of Britain feeling unsettled, the landmark report will say.

    These issues must be tackled head on, rather than swept under the carpet by politically correct council officials who fear being labelled “racist” if they assert British values or raise concerns, it will say.

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  • Anglican Mainstream: GAFCON UK website launched
    September 10th, 2016

    GAFCON UK exists as a broad-based fellowship for all faithful Anglicans in Britain who agree with the Jerusalem Declaration, who are committed to living for Christ, standing humbly and compassionately for historic biblical truth in church, community and nation, and who share a vision for a global Anglican future.

    Christians in the West are rightly concerned about the lack of freedom and of basic necessities in many parts of the world. But do we realize that followers of Jesus overseas are praying for us as well? In particular, many Anglicans across the world look with compassion on our spiritual poverty.

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  • Christian Today: Parents warned that 'sexting' has become a 'rite of passage' for most teenagers
    September 10th, 2016

    It's no longer safe to let kids have free rein on their mobile devices. A leading Internet safety advocate has warned parents that kids are being exposed to a lot of graphic materials, and "sexting" is being considered as an "in" thing to do nowadays.

    "Internet pornography has become the wallpaper of our children's lives from a very early age," Donna Rice Hughes tells The Christian Post. "Here is the reality: Parents are often the last ones to know and to understand that their own children are not immune to Internet dangers, whatever they are."

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  • Guardian: Police in England and Wales consider making misogyny a hate crime
    September 10th, 2016

    Police forces across England and Wales are considering expanding their definition of hate crime to include misogyny after an experiment in one city that saw more than 20 investigations launched in two months.

    The initial success of Nottingham’s crackdown against sexist abuse has drawn national interest after the city’s police revealed that they investigated a case of misogyny every three days during July and August, the first months to see specially trained officers targeting behaviour ranging from street harassment to unwanted physical approaches.

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