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Calling a spade a spade: if we cannot identify the nature of sexual abuse, how can we prevent it?
October 12th, 2018 | Church and State, Sexual Orientation, Family and Sexual Ethics
Roger Kiska, of the Christian Legal Centre, comments on how political correctness and preventing offence seem to be more culturally valued than safeguarding children from sexual victimisation. He looks in greater detail at the sexual abuse scandal within the Catholic Church and asks how we might prevent future abuse if stating the facts is, nowadays, deemed as hateful.
Scotland’s alarming hate posters
October 12th, 2018 | Freedom, Freedom of Speech, Religious Freedom
The Scottish Government and the Scottish Police are running a hate crime awareness campaign by putting up various posters addressed to ‘bigots’, ‘homophobes’, ‘transphobes’ and others. Tim Dieppe discusses the issues involved, looking at what is a ‘hate crime’, a ‘hate incident’, and who these posters are addressed to. He concludes that the worst of these posters constitutes state anti-Christian propaganda which is intended to intimidate and threaten Christians.
Victory for freedom of expression as bakers win Supreme Court case
October 10th, 2018 | Equality, Freedom, Freedom of Speech, Same-Sex 'Marriage', Religious Freedom, Family and Sexual Ethics
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that Ashers bakery’s refusal to make a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage was not discriminatory.
10 years of sharing good news
October 8th, 2018 | Church and State, Education, Freedom, Family and Sexual Ethics, Islam, Life and Bioethics, Other
The wonderful good news of Jesus lies at the heart of our ministry. It’s Christ's love that compels us to keep going, knowing that the gospel is the power of God for salvation (Rom 1:16).
Parental rights vs. the equality duty: what the law really says
October 5th, 2018 | Family, Education, Equality, Freedom, Family and Sexual Ethics
The Christian Legal Centre’s Roger Kiska discusses how British schools have moved away from teaching basic primary education, instead choosing to focus on teaching the ideology of 'inclusivity'. Roger explains the reality of their legal obligation and how many schools are not fulfilling it.
Action Alert: respond to the government's consultation on changing transgender laws
October 5th, 2018 | Same-Sex 'Marriage', Same-Sex 'Parenting', Sexual Orientation, Family and Sexual Ethics
The government is currently consulting on whether or not to amend the Gender Recognition Act 2004, asking - amongst other things - if it should be easier for people to change their gender in England and Wales, and potentially forcing the Church to accept same-sex 'marriage'. The proposed changes could both threaten religious freedom and punish people for telling the truth. Here, we give a quick guide to responding to the government's consultation.
Responses to 'One Scotland' 'hate crime' posters
October 5th, 2018 | Freedom, Freedom of Speech
Dear 'One Scotland', Do you really think that churches are teaching people to be hateful towards others? Or to be violent towards people we disagree with? Why not pop into a church sometime and find out what we really think? Love, Some Christian friends
Resist transgender demands for legal gender recognition for children
October 5th, 2018 | Family, Same-Sex 'Marriage', Same-Sex 'Parenting', Sexual Orientation, Family and Sexual Ethics
The government is currently consulting the public on possible changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004. In this article, Carys Moseley shows what transgender campaign groups are calling for.
10 years of championing marriage and family
October 1st, 2018 | Family, Family and Sexual Ethics
God created men and women in his image, giving them the task of filling and subduing the newly-created world (Genesis 1). From then on, God set up families - led by one man and one woman, married for life - as the basic building block of society, giving them the responsibility to bring up godly children.
Is the Commission for Countering Extremism going to erode freedom of religion and belief?
September 28th, 2018 | Freedom, Freedom of Speech, Religious Freedom
Carys Moseley looks at recent developments in the government’s ‘anti-extremism’ measures and how they could be used to restrict Christian freedoms.
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