A CATHOLIC adoption society has won a High Court battle over laws forcing it to consider gay couples as parents, according to a BBC report today.
Leeds-based Catholic Care had warned it would be forced to give up its work finding homes for children if it had to comply with the [...]
SOUR faces all round over at the Christian Institute, where news that the UK Supreme Court has refused permission for an appeal in the case of Lillian Ladele has caused great misery.
Ladele is the Christian registrar who was disciplined by Islington Council in London because of her stance on civil partnerships. According to the CI, [...]
WELCOME to the second part of our interview with PROFESSOR A C GRAYLING. Here, PETER BRIETBART asks Grayling how he’d combat extremism if he were the Prime Minister of the UK; how we can have morality in a godless world; whether circumcision is ever morally acceptable, and why religions are so common and varied.
PB: If [...]
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The Southall Black Sisters have been awarded the National Secular Society’s £5,000 Michael Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year. The award was presented to Pragna Patel, Chair of the organisation, at prestigious award ceremony in central London yesterday.
NSS President Terry Sanderson said:
Southall Black Sisters was set up to meet the needs of Black and [...]
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WE have just been informed by Leo Igwe, Executive Director of the Nigerian Humanist Movement, that the lunatic head of the Liberty Gospel Church, Helen Ukpabio, failed for the second time to appear in the Federal High Court in Calabar to press a lawsuit she initiated against him and a number of others – and the case [...]
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LILLIAN Ladele, the Christian registrar who was told to perform same-sex civil partnerships or face dismissal, has lost her religious discrimination case at the Court of Appeal.
Lawyers acting for Ladele say she intends to fight on, and will appeal to the Supreme Court, the UK’s highest court.
She originally won a religious discrimination case against Islington [...]
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