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Church figures criticise rulings

“The former Archbishop of Canterbury and other church leaders will urge senior judges to stand down from Court of Appeal hearings involving religious discrimination because of ‘disturbing’ and ‘dangerous’ rulings handed down in recent cases, it has emerged. Lord Carey and other senior church figures are said to want them replaced with a panel of five [...]

Church ‘must fund NHS chaplains’

“Religious groups should fund their own presence in UK hospitals and save the NHS some £40m per year, the National Secular Society (NSS) suggests. The organisation of non-believers says such money would be better spent on ‘much needed’ nurses or cleaners. The NSS said it contacted 233 acute and mental health trusts which spent a [...]

God, Sex, and Sexuality

Recently read on a mailing list, if the list had a quotebook, I’d nominate it for the front page of it: I’ve never been able to understand how certain sections of Christian believers, including some politicians, can be so little worried by people killing each other, but so exercised by people loving each other.