Although the BBC was willing to disregard protests from Christians who considered its decision to broadcast Jerry Springer: The Opera as an affront, Mark Thompson, its outgoing director-general, is more wary of giving airtime to Can We Talk About This?, the National Theatre’s examination of how Islam is curtailing freedom of speech.
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March 28th, 2012
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March 28th, 2012The number of Swiss residents who died by assisted suicide rose sevenfold between 1998 and 2009.
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March 28th, 2012Throughout the world, the moniker of “human rights” has long been a cloak for a number of so-called rights that cannot be justified in any other way.
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March 28th, 2012A Christian doctor went to an employment tribunal yesterday claiming he was sacked because he emailed a prayer to his colleagues.
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March 28th, 2012
That’s the question being raised by European Dignity Watch. According to a report published by European Dignity Watch, Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International – the two biggest abortion providers in the world – have been receiving tens of millions of Dollars of EU tax payer funding.
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March 28th, 2012
Yesterday in a five hour debate MPs discussed the law on assisted suicide. Extracts from some of the contributions from Conservative MPs are pasted below.
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March 28th, 2012In a previous blog we mentioned the Government plan to redefine marriage to include gay marriage and the impact it will have on this and future generations.
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March 28th, 2012The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to review Idaho's ban on public school use of texts and documents deemed to be "religious."
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March 28th, 2012Yesterday, for the first time in 40 years, Parliament debated a substantive motion dealing directly with euthanasia and the 'right to die'.
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March 28th, 2012Hopes of strengthening the law on assisted suicide in Britain became more remote last night after Parliament passed a motion “welcoming” prosecution guidelines that make it virtually impossible to convict on a charge of assisting a suicide. The uncontested passage of the motion is a clear signal that the issue of assisted suicide, at least in Parliament, is a dead letter, pro-life advocates said.