MSP Margo Macdonald unveiled the revised consultation document at the Scottish Parliament yesterday, a year after MSPs overwhelmingly rejected her previous Bill on the issue, in a vote of 85 to 16.
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January 25th, 2012
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January 25th, 2012
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January 25th, 2012Religious freedom in the US and Europe is under threat from the courts, an Oxford professor has warned.
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January 25th, 2012French Governmental Services of Classified Information (les Renseignements Généraux) released a report saying that 522 sites have been the target of desecrating acts in 2010. This represents a 34% increase compared to 2009 (389 acts) which had already known a 46% increase compared to 2008 (266 acts). This thus represents a 96% increase in two years. Figures of the year 2010 identify 214 acts of vandalism towards cemeteries, 272 towards chapels, 26 towards war memorials and 10 towards crosses or calvaries.
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January 25th, 2012The email below arrived in my in box today from Open Doors UK. It’s very good to see that there are plenty of MPs taking the issue of Christian persecution seriously and also that the Foreign Office has made a clear positive statement too.
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January 25th, 2012
Did you hear what happened to Aryeh Ralbag, chief rabbi of Amsterdam? He was suspended from his post by his own Orthodox Jewish community “for cosigning a declaration which said homosexuality was a ‘treatable’ inclination.” Oh the crime!
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January 25th, 2012Rick Santorum took a swipe at the gay community on Tuesday, proving that the multiple glitter-bomb attacks he received this week have done nothing to change his hard-line stance against gay rights.
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January 25th, 2012Dying Scots could be allowed to collect the drugs they need to end their lives from a high street CHEMIST, it was revealed yesterday.
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January 25th, 2012
It should a legal requirement for all magazines which display sexually explicit material (which would include hardcore pornography, softcore pornography and 'lads mags') to be covered with a 'modesty wrap'. This would ensure that no explicit images or text on the front and rear covers can be seen by young children.
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January 25th, 2012New legislation for organ donation in Wales will introduce a "soft opt-out system" permitting doctors to remove organs and tissue from any dead patient, unless they had specifically registered a formal objection to it, or their families give consent.