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So I read that Sabina Higgins, the wife of President Michael D Higgins, had told midwives in Trinity College the fact that a woman could be made to carry a pregnancy to term in a case of "fatal foetal abnormality" was an "outrage".
I thought of my nine-year-old daughter, Kathleen Rose, whom I had hugged and kissed that morning as she set off for another school day. I thought of how beautiful she looked as she giggled and waved excitedly at her little brother and sister through the bus window.
Pastor Steve Chalke, founder of Oasis Church Waterloo in London, has just applied for a licence that would allow him to minister to same-sex marriages. If his application is approved, Oasis Church will become the most high-profile church in the U.K. that caters to gay weddings.
"Oasis Church in Waterloo has reached the decision. It's taken us some time to reach it, that this is something we want to do," he told Premier radio. "We're registering at the moment and we will be able to do this."
Dozens of Methodist clergy members took a stand for equality on Monday in the hope that their church will re-evaluate discriminatory policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals during its 2016 General Conference, which begins on Tuesday.
More than 100 pastors, deacons, elders and candidates for ministry in the United Methodist Church released a letter publicly coming out as LGBT just one day before the church’s top policy-making body convenes in Portand to consider roughly 1,000 legislative petitions.
The legal battle over transgender rights between the state of North Carolina and the U.S. government has moved the country closer to settling one of the last frontiers in civil rights law.
At issue is whether transgender people deserve the same federal protections that have been extended to groups such as blacks and religious minorities.
Backers of the North Carolina law, which requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity, say it will protect women and girls from predators. Transgender advocates say that claim is unfounded and ignores a modern understanding of people who identify with a gender other than the one assigned at birth.
An eight-month struggle to find a “legally robust” definition of extremism lies behind a delay in bringing forward David Cameron’s flagship legislation to tackle Islamist extremism in Britain, the Guardian has learned.
It is understood that the counter-extremism bill, to be announced in the Queen’s speech on 18 May, has been through “dozens of drafts” and Whitehall officials are still struggling to find a definition of “extremist” that will not be immediately challenged in the courts.
The bill has been cast as the centrepiece of Cameron’s “legacy programme” of legislation to be enacted in the aftermath of June’s EU referendum.
David Cameron will put curbing Islamic extremism at the heart of the Queen’s Speech amid concerns about his legacy.
The Prime Minister will introduce an Extremism Bill later this month which will include measures to ban organisations, gag individuals and close down premises used to ‘promote hatred’.
Student activists are calling on universities to install sanitary towel bins in men’s toilets so that biologically female transgender students who use them do not face discrimination.
The Mail on Sunday has found that equality rights campaigners at three leading universities have called for the changes – resulting in family groups branding the move ‘madness’.
Christians who oppose gay marriage could be targeted with "false accusations" of extremism under an upcoming bill, a lobby group has warned.
David Cameron will introduce measures to ban organisations, silence individuals and close down groups that "promote hatred" in legislation to be announced later this month. The bill will be the central focus of the Queen's Speech on May 18, according to The Times.
A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people, has won approval from health watchdogs.
A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life.
A conservative group says it has been sending men into women's toilets at Target stores to protest the company's policies toward transgender people.
In response to recent laws in US states, the retailer said transgender people are welcome to use the toilet of their choice at its stores.