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 [...]
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Posted in Human Rights, Religion, Society on Jun 18th, 2008
Sarah Desrosiers has my sympathy and support. She is a small business owner. She has been in business less than a year and a half. Already she has been sued for £35,000 (far more than she earns in a year). Although she lost the case, the tribunal did manage to reduce [...]
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Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Religion on Dec 23rd, 2007
It’s shocking to think that even the ‘respectable’ broadsheet newspapers can tell a blatant lie.
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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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