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Posted in Government, Human Rights, Morality, Politics, Religion on Sep 25th, 2008
There is a report by Patrick Wintour in today’s Guardian that there are signs that the British Government may, at long last, be ready to tackle the endemic sexism and religious discrimination in the British Constitution. The bar may finally be lifted. Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Roman [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Law, Religion, Society on Oct 28th, 2007
There was a strange posting in the Celtic Football Team blog last Friday. Don’t worry, I haven’t lost my senses (at least, not that I am aware of). I have a stringer who reads these things for me so that I don’t have to. No expense is spared in bringing you the most scintillating stories.
Imagine [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Aug 5th, 2007
In the early part of the sixteenth century, a man called Felix Manz was executed in Switzerland. He was a sincere Christian, and his only crime was that he held different views about baptism from those held by the sincere Christians in the local ruling authority. They chose drowning as a method of execution.
Aha, you [...]
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