Officials have decided to forbid British schoolchildren from having best friends. The government says it will back a ban on employees wearing crucifixes or any other Christian symbol. A court says UK churches will be forced to marry homosexual couples regardless of church law.
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March 26th, 2012
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March 25th, 2012During the budget speech, the Chancellor announced that “we will introduce legislation limited to relaxing the Sunday Trading laws for eight Sundays only, starting on 22nd July.”
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March 25th, 2012Two academics have ignited a furious debate in Britain and beyond - after advocating that parents should have the right to end the life of new-born babies in the same way as an abortion before birth.
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March 25th, 2012Assisted dying will be debated in parliament on Tuesday for the first time in a generation. A number of legal cases have seen repeated attempts to change the law on assisted suicide, but it remains a criminal offence for an individual to encourage or aid the suicide of a terminally ill person in England and Wales.
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March 25th, 2012'When I got my positive pregnancy test I was asked straight out if I was keeping the baby, the implication being that if the answer was no that would be no problem – just a matter of referring me differently'
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March 25th, 2012
'When I got my positive pregnancy test I was asked straight out if I was keeping the baby, the implication being that if the answer was no that would be no problem – just a matter of referring me differently'
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March 25th, 2012Ministers are preparing to change the law to ensure that meat slaughtered in accordance with strict Islamic law cannot be sold to unwitting members of the public.
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March 24th, 2012
An Islamic 'marriage guide' book has sparked outrage - by advising men on the best ways to beat their wives.
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March 24th, 2012Earlier this month the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) “Commentator Accountability Project” included me on their list of people who deserve special scrutiny before they can be engaged as commentators on the marriage debate. But it is organizations like GLAAD that need to be held accountable for the impact of their rhetoric on the public debate.
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March 23rd, 2012Church schools must robustly assert their Christian ethos in the face of challenges and attacks from secularists, a Church of England report has warned.