Scientists have created human embryos from slivers of skin – bringing closer the day when babies are cloned in the lab.
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October 6th, 2011
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October 6th, 2011Race rules which block white families from adopting black children should be ripped up to end the national ‘scandal’ of thousands of youngsters left languishing in care, the Prime Minister said yesterday.
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October 6th, 2011
Gerald Howarth, a junior defence minister, told The Daily Telegraph that Tory MPs should not be forced to support the proposal to rewrite the legal definition of “marriage” so that it included same-sex couples.
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October 6th, 2011In 2004, I voted reluctantly against civil partnerships (though I was all for equality in relation to life assurance, tax exemptions and so forth) because I was against the state compromising its practice in relation to marriage - in other words, that it takes place between a man and a woman, the usual practice in Europe for a very long time. Whether I was right in believing that civil partnerships have such an effect is debatable. That I am right in asserting that legalising gay marriage would do so is not. Such is David Cameron's intention. "I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a Conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a Conservative," he said yesterday.
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October 6th, 2011Following a number of high profile challenges and warnings given to people working in the medical profession after they'd offered prayer to their patients, the Medical Defence Union, backed by the General Medical Council, issued guidance earlier this year saying that GPs can pray with patients, as long as it's 'tactful'. To find out more Rebecca Duffett spoke with Dr Peter Saunders.
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October 6th, 2011The Human Rights Campaign released daily videos of celebrities and other New Yorkers voicing their support for same-sex marriage, and now a group opposing gay rites is starting its own video series.
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October 5th, 2011Today the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, which some are calling the Court's most important religious liberty case in a generation. The case invites the Court to address a question with wide-ranging implications: At what point do anti-discrimination laws unconstitutionally infringe on the right of religious groups to operate in accord with their religious tenets?
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October 5th, 2011The semi-official newspaper of the Holy See, L’Osservatore Romano, described the guidance from the BBC’s ethics advisers as “enormous nonsense” and accused the broadcaster of “senseless hypocrisy”.
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October 5th, 2011Three Highland Church of Scotland ministers have announced that they are to quit over the issue of gay clergy.
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October 5th, 2011The Rev James Francis was travelling in an armoured vehicle north of the Bowri desert in Afghanistan, accompanying the Brigade Reconnaissance Force during the stopping and searching of vehicles for insurgents, when a Royal Marine interrupted his chat with a gunner to ask if it was right to kill.