Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, is to take on Britain’s faith schools by ordering them to teach pupils to be tolerant of other religions and respect lesbian, gay and transgender relationships.
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November 2nd, 2014
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November 2nd, 2014
MPs move to end uncertainty over prosecuting doctors for abortion on grounds of gender, branding it ‘the ultimate form of discrimination’.
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November 2nd, 2014
British women with antecedents in the Indian subcontinent have revealed how they underwent illegal abortions of female babies because of cultural pressures to have a boy.
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November 1st, 2014
Anglicans are increasingly looking to the Vatican to take the lead in standing up for Christians around the world, a prominent bishop has said.
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October 30th, 2014
Deputy Prime Minister accuses Tories of being 'frightened' to rethink drugs laws and blocking a major review as controversial Home Office report triggers public spat.
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October 30th, 2014
A UK national sperm bank - charged with reversing a growing shortage of donor sperm - has started work in Birmingham.
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October 30th, 2014
'Selfies’ and 'sexting’ have driven the alarming attitudes to child sex exploitation, says report into Rochdale scandal.
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October 29th, 2014
Equalities minister Nicky Morgan says she has changed her mind and "probably would" vote in favour of same-sex marriage if the vote was held now.
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October 29th, 2014
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan signals she has changed her mind on gay marriage as she unveils £2 million fund to tackle homophobic bullying
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October 29th, 2014
Politicians must pay greater heed to the views of faith groups or risk prolonging damaging divisions in society, according to the new minister of the most important Presbyterian church in Scotland.