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Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Religion on Dec 17th, 2008
Because of its importance, I have copied below an item from last Friday’s National Secular Society’s Newsletter in full. There is a call for people to sign a petition at the end. Please consider doing so.
One Law for All campaign launches with call for new legislative curbs on sharia courts
New legislation may be needed to [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Morality, Society on Dec 7th, 2008
Lynchings may have a long history, but I dislike lynchings.
Premeditated mob violence meting out extrajudicial punishment is frightening. From my youth I remember vividly the look of terror on the face of a soon-to-be ‘burning necklace’ victim in a news clip about the violence in Soweto, and I remember thinking, “Whatever this man may [...]
Posted in Government, Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Mortality, Politics, Religion, Society on Oct 30th, 2008
If she were a horse and not a human being, someone would show compassion. However, because Debbie Purdy is a human being, she is being made to suffer unnecessarily. A minority of people (largely informed by religious belief) are imposing their views on the majority in preventing a change in UK law. But the case [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Religion, Society on Oct 13th, 2008
I was concerned to read recently in the New Scotsman that there are discussions taking place about the possible introduction of Sharia courts in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Qamar Bhatti, director of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT), which runs the courts, admitted discussions were taking place with lawyers and Muslim community groups.
If this happens, the Scottish [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships on Aug 12th, 2008
A 25 year old woman who was raped in the West End of London was initially told by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), which covers England, Scotland and Wales, that her £11,000 compensation award would be reduced by 25 per cent because she had been drinking. However, that decision has been overturned as her [...]
When I first met him at 18, he was losing it. Four years later when he gave his best man’s speech at my wedding, like Lenin at that age, he had lost it. I was never quite sure whether it was his intelligence, his glasses, or his baldness that enabled him to get [...]
Those who defend horoscopes as harmless fun never explain what is harmless or funny about promoting a con trick which preys on ignorance and fear.
Any pharmaceuticals manufacturer that promoted a birth control pill with no demonstrable effect on fertility would be prosecuted in the UK under the Trades Descriptions Act, and sued by trusting customers [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Politics, Religion on Mar 16th, 2008
It took an arcane debate to the hasten the end of an arcane law, but that is what happened in the House of Lords on Wednesday 5 March when an amendment to repeal the UK blasphemy law was finally passed (148 votes to 87). The Christian tenets of the Church of England will no [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Religion on Mar 4th, 2008
Less than a month after the Archbishop of Canterbury caused some consternation in the UK by suggesting that the adoption of certain aspects of sharia law was unavoidable, a US court judge made a ruling which seems to imply that in some cases accommodation with Roman Catholic canon law should be considered.
In 2004, Dennis Riccitelli, [...]
Posted in Internet, Law, Technology on Mar 1st, 2008
Having the right of free speech, doesn’t give you the right to repeatedly and unwantedly invade someone else’s privacy. At least, that’s what the Virginia Supreme Court has decided, and I, for one, am pleased.
Jeremy Jaynes, considered to be one of the world’s top 10 spammers in 2003, was recently convicted in Virginia for [...]
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