Campaigners say Public Order Act is unclear and has resulted in string of controversial arrests.
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May 16th, 2012
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May 16th, 2012
May 16, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A board member of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) has resigned less than 48 hours after Australian media reported that he had signed a document supporting true marriage.
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May 16th, 2012
The whole of society is guilty of “sanctioning violence” against the elderly by everyday prejudices, viewing them as an expensive burden, England’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric has warned.
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May 16th, 2012
The Rev Paul Perkin seemed bewildered by the question: what was his take on the latest scheme for conservative evangelical churches to withhold money from the rest of the Church of England in order to keep it out of the hands of liberals, gay people or women priests?
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May 16th, 2012
Every state primary and secondary school in England is to receive a copy of the King James Bible.
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May 16th, 2012
The number of Washington state residents who died of physician-assisted suicide rose to 70 in 2011, up from 51 in 2010 and 36 in 2009, when the state’s Death With Dignity Act took effect.
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May 16th, 2012
A law banning "insulting" language and behaviour is strangling free speech and should be scrapped, a campaign spearheaded by a senior Tory MP has demanded.
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May 16th, 2012
Fascinating news of the week so far sees an unexpected alliance in the battle for free speech bringing together The Christian Institute, The National Secular Society and The Peter Tatchell Foundation.
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May 16th, 2012
LONDON, May 16, (AFP): An unlikely coalition of lawmakers and activists came together in Britain on Wednesday to urge people to “feel free to insult me” in a campaign for the repeal of a law banning public insults.
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May 16th, 2012
The Catholic bishop of Davenport, Iowa, has decided to allow a homosexual group to present a hefty scholarship to a homosexual student at a Catholic high school.