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  • Breitbart: Drag queens to visit primary schools in bid to 'end intolerance'
    June 25th, 2017

    A new scheme will see drag queens visiting primary schools and libraries in a bid to “challenge intolerance and homophobia at a young age”.

    Based on an American project, Drag Queen Story Time's organisers hope to start the scheme at this year's Bristol Pride before rolling it out across the city.

    Founder Tom Canham told the Bristol Post he has already managed to recruit 30 drag queens who are eager to take part in the project, which will see men dressed as women reading aloud "feminist fairytales and gender fluid novels for young children".

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  • Premier: Christian MP to British Medical Association: don't back decriminalisation of abortion
    June 25th, 2017

    A Christian politician has called upon the British Medical Association (BMA) not to back a motion supporting the decriminalisation of abortion up to 24 weeks this week.

    Conservative MP Fiona Bruce spoke out as members of the trade union prepare to vote on the proposal during the BMA's annual conference in Bournemouth.

    She told the Mail on Sunday: "Instead of listening to lobby groups, the BMA should be listening to British women, 70 per cent of whom want the abortion time limit to be lowered from the current 24 weeks limit - one of the highest in the Western world."

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  • Times (£): Equality watchdog abolishes role of disability champion
    June 25th, 2017

    Britain's newly appointed disability commissioner was told just 36 hours before his first board meeting that his role as champion for the nation's 11m disabled people had been abolished.

    Lord Shinkwin, who uses a wheelchair, had been given the job at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) but was abruptly told it wanted him to serve only as a general commissioner. The decision has led to a stand-off between David Isaac, the EHRC chairman, and Shinkwin, who is demanding the post be reinstated.

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  • Mail: Police ban ladders and platforms at Speaker's Corner
    June 25th, 2017

    Police have been caught on camera telling people to come down from their ladders while they were holding forth in Speakers' Corner.

    The seven speakers were left shocked as officers approached them in the world-famous haven for agitators in London's Hyde Park, telling them: 'You are not allowed to stand on anything other than your two feet'.

    The decision to kick speakers off their soapboxes was apparently made by the Metropolitan Police three days before the encounter last Sunday.

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  • Times (£): Top school Brighton College to celebrate Pride parade
    June 25th, 2017

    Brighton College is to become the first private school in the country to join a Pride parade. Pupils are making "peace and love" banners and 1960s costumes for a float in the city's parade in August. The parade's theme is the summer of love.

    The float is backed by the actor Sir Ian McKellen, who told pupils at the school, where annual fees can top £37,000, about his unhappiness at being unable to come out as gay until well into adulthood.

    Richard Cairns, the head master, who will be on the float dressed as Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, said: "Pupils are enthusiastic about taking part, spurred on by McKellen's visit last year. It is a strong statement of our ethos."

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  • Mail: Church 'needs a miracle to solve gay rights row'
    June 24th, 2017

    The Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that the Church of England will need a miracle from the Holy Spirit to solve its long-running row over gay rights.

    The Most Reverend Justin Welby said the divisions cannot be healed by human hands but only by divine intervention.

    His remarks indicate deepening desperation among Anglican leaders over the irreconcilable gap between liberals who demand gay equality within the Church and conservative evangelicals who say that gay sex is sinful.

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  • Archbishop Cranmer: Government to establish 'Commission for Countering Extremism' - Be afraid. Be very afraid
    June 23rd, 2017

    Alastair Campbell, former head of communications at No.10 (so by no means naive on the use of social media), tweeted this in the wake of the London Bridge attack, straight after a speech delivered by Theresa May in which she said Britain is too tolerant of Islamist ideology. His message was clear: Brexit and Jihad are derived from the same fount of extremism; supporters of both are extremists, if not terrorists; a mass political movement for democracy and sovereignty is no different from murderous suicide bombers and machete-wielding fanatics. If a newspaper thinks differently from Alastair Campbell on the subject of Brexit, it is jihadist.

    He deleted this two hours later, saying: "Previous tweet deleted. Agreed it was over the top. But was genuinely angry at Mrs May's speech which was highly political and ill judged."

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  • LifeSite: Schools must refer to students by preferred gender pronoun or face investigation
    June 23rd, 2017

    Pro-family conservatives are condemning a new Department of Education policy that allows the federal government to investigate schools for not calling gender-confused students by their preferred "transgender" pronoun as opposed to the one matching their innate biology.

    The memo is written by Candace Jackson, the newly-appointed acting assistant secretary for the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Education (DOE). Jackson is an open lesbian in a homosexual "marriage," a sexual assault survivor and a libertarian conservative activist who advocated for Trump in the campaign.

    Jackson celebrates "gay pride" and was hired by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose strong support of LGBT issues was largely ignored by conservatives during her confirmation process.

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  • PinkNews: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan declares 'love is love' as tube stations get a rainbow makeover
    June 23rd, 2017

    Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said that Londoners are "free to love whoever you want to love", as some of the most iconic London Underground stations get a rainbow makeover for Pride.

    To mark the Pride in London festival today, which launches this week ahead of the Pride parade on July 8, Transport for London is giving parts of the city's transport network a new rainbow design.

    Mayor of London Sadiq Khan launched the campaign, posing with a #loveislove roundel.

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  • Schools Week: Private religious schools flout equality laws - but remain open
    June 23rd, 2017

    Religious private schools that have repeatedly failed their legal equality duties have nevertheless been allowed to remain open – often with leaders still in key positions, Schools Week can reveal.

    The latest batch of inspection reports from Ofsted list two such schools ignored rules set out in the 2010 Equality Act and failed to mention either sexual orientation or gender reassignment to their pupils.

    One of these, Vishnitz Girls School, an Orthodox Jewish school in Hackney, north London, was warned both in October and November last year that it had failed to "pay enough regard to developing respect and tolerance" for those protected under the Act, especially LGBT people. A follow-up report from Ofsted in May found that nothing had changed.

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