FAMILY values campaigners and the leader of a group that split from the Church of Scotland have spoken out against what they consider to be intolerant attacks on the right of people to hold their own religious views.
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March 17th, 2013
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March 17th, 2013
The Sunday Times (£) reports this morning that an 83 year old British man with dementia is to travel to Switzerland for an assisted suicide. If he does so he will become the first known Briton suffering from the condition to die at Dignitas, the Swiss suicide organisation.
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March 16th, 2013
One of the most senior bishops in the Church of England has called for it to offer blessing services for gay couples in civil partnerships.
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March 16th, 2013
FEARS that school chaplains could preach their views on issues such as gay marriage to pupils has led Scottish Borders Council (SBC) to alter its guidelines, writes Kenny Paterson
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March 15th, 2013
The doctrine of “equal marriage” is a slogan created by post-Christian, socialist revolutionaries as a political tool to create a totally new cultural paradigm of morality that can only be implemented after the “complete destruction of the family unit,” a high-level Vatican official told an audience in Britain last week.
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March 15th, 2013
On March 26, thousands of Americans will gather in Washington, D.C., for the national March for Marriage. They’ll have to work hard to match the élan of the French, who are getting ready for their third marriage rally in Paris on the 24th.
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March 15th, 2013
While I accept that Dr Iain Kerr's motives may have been good, I cannot agree with the action he took in helping his patients to die ("Scots doctor: I helped my patients kill themselves", The Herald March 13).
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March 15th, 2013
Civil registrars should not be able to refuse to marry same-sex couples, Highland Council has suggested.
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March 15th, 2013
Police in the French capital Paris have refused to allow opponents to the country’s gay marriage bill to demonstrate on the city’s famed Champs-Elysées citing security concerns. France’s Senate is due to vote on the proposed law in early April.
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March 15th, 2013
A Muslim mob attacked a Christian neighborhood in eastern Pakistan torching up to 100 homes and injuring dozens, after hearing reports that a Christian man committed blasphemy against Islam.