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Uncork the Champagne! Blasphemy has at last been abolished

Thursday, March 6, 2008

THE National Secular Society and freethinkers throughout the land are celebrating the fact that Parliament last night had passed an amendment abolishing the blasphemy law.
Terry Sanderson, President of the NSS said:
This is the culmination of the Society’s 140-year fight to abolish this medieval law under which many innocent victims have suffered. Even in the 20th [...]

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Gay discrimination case: anonymous donor bails out church

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A GAY Christian who won a claim against the Church of England has been awarded more than Â£47,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal - but it appears that the church won’t have to pay a penny in legal costs.
Anni Holden, spokeswoman for the diocese of Hereford, told the BBC that the legal costs of [...]

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Beyond belief: ‘Dumbledore’ backs sharia law for British Muslims

Thursday, February 7, 2008

OUR suspicion that the Archbishop of Cant, Dr Rowan ‘Dumbledore’ Williams, has stopped taking his medication was confirmed today when he told told BBC Radio 4’s World at One the introduction of sharia law for British Muslims was “unavoidable”.
Williams told programme that Muslims should be able to choose whether to have matters such as marital [...]

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Might the Lords Spiritual be spirited away?

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Could the end be in sight for bishops in Britain’s second legislative chamber, the House of Lords? Certainly, their as-of-right presence there will come under new scrutiny within the next few weeks, when the government’s latest proposals on reforming the Lords are published.
“The Department of the Constitution has announced that the electorate could find itself [...]

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A week in which to remember Thomas Aikenhead, the last man in Britain to be hanged for blasphemy

Thursday, January 10, 2008

PRECISELY 311 years after the last person in Britain was hanged for blasphemy, the British Government announced that it will consider scrapping the country’s archaic and discredited blasphemy laws.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spokesman said this week that ministers may table amendments to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill in the House of Lords.
But he added:
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Jeremy 1 – Rowan 0: Clarkson puts his foot down

Sunday, December 30, 2007

TV’s outspoken presenter of motoring programmes, Jeremy Clarkson, has a set-to with the Archwizard of Cant today in the Sunday Times. Love him or hate him, you’ll enjoy the way he gets stuck into Rowan Dumbledore Williams and his super-rich outfit.
In a piece headed “Unhand my patio heater, archbishop”, Clarkson lays into Williams for telling [...]

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