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• Freedom of Conscience and Abortion
  on Oct 13, 2010 in Religious Freedom Discrimination
  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has recently been considering the issue of Conscientious Objection in relation to participation in Abortion. Originally the proposals before the Assembly regarded Conscientious Objection not as a...
• Equality Act - 1 October 2010
  on Sep 30, 2010 in Religious Freedom Discrimination
  The majority of the provisions in The Equality Act 2010 are due to come into force on 1st October 2010. The details are contained in Statutory Instrument 2010 No. 2317The relevance to Religion Law issues is that the 2010 Act unifies all Anti-disc...
• Iona Institute Talk 24 September 2010
  on Sep 29, 2010 in Religious Freedom Discrimination
  On the 24th September I was one of the speakers at a conference in Dublin organised by The Iona Institute. Below is a copy of the speech I made which reviews the various cases involving religious freedom issues which have come before the British Cou...
• And the Queen Wore Blue
  on Sep 16, 2010 in Catholic Church
  On 8th September 2010 Geoffrey Robertson published in The Independent a section from his Book "The Case Against the Pope". I had answered most of his points earlier in my Blogs on 9 April and 26 July but I noticed one quote from his book which is wo...
• American Atheists Inc v Utah Highway Patrol Association
  on Aug 26, 2010 in Religious Symbols
  The US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has made a decision in the case of American Atheists, Inc v Utah Highway Patrol Association which overrules an earlier decision by a US District Court in 2007. The Appeals Court decision relies heavily on the US...
• Catholic Care An attack on the idea of Charity Itself
  on Aug 23, 2010 in Catholic Church Religious Freedom Discrimination
  The decision by the Charity Commission to refuse permission for the Leeds based Catholic Care Charity to amend its objects was depressingly predictable but what seems to have been overlooked in the acres of comment on the decision is the fact that th...
• Doe v Holy See - Update
  on Aug 10, 2010 in Catholic Church
  My earlier Blog Doe v Holy See - Not as Important as it appears has been supported by the decision today to withdraw three Civil Claims against the Holy See brought in Kentucky. As I mentioned the main point of the Doe case was that it rejected the...
• A WORLD-WIDE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY ?
  on Jul 26, 2010 in Catholic Church
  1. It has been suggested in various Newspaper Articles, Media interviews, Blogs etc that documents revealed during the Catholic Church child abuse scandal have implicated the Church in general and Pope Benedict in particular in a criminal conspi...
• Sharia Law in Britain - How Significant ?
  on Jul 12, 2010 in Islam Sharia
  The One Law For All Campaign has recently held a demonstration in Trafalgar Square opposing the spread of Sharia Based Tribunals in Britain and has issued a booklet Sharia Law in Britain a Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights. Though I have sy...
• Doe v Holy See - Not as Important as it appears
  on Jul 5, 2010 in Catholic Church
  Many media outlets have been announcing that the Vatican has been stripped of its Diplomatic Immunity by the US Supreme Court of which this Article in the Guardian Newspaper “Without its immunity, can the Vatican survive ?” is fairly typical. U...

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