Lizzie Troughton writes in The Critic about the recent Destiny Ministries case.
Continue readingEdinburgh Council apologises for discriminating against Christian ministry
City of Edinburgh Council has offered an apology and £25,000 in damages to Destiny Ministries after cancelling their three-day conference due to the Christian beliefs of a guest speaker.
Continue readingFamily Lives Matter – by Elizabeth Francis writing for Conservative Woman UK
Today is the ‘Global Day of Parents’. The United Nations has affirmed that, in celebrating this day, nations around the world should recognise that the family has the primary responsibility for nurturing and protecting children. This day appreciates parents for their ‘selfless commitment to children and their lifelong sacrifice towards nurturing this relationship’.
The UK has been keen to pay lip service to numerous resolutions and reports which honour the role of parents. Mothers and fathers have clear parental duties, responsibilities and rights under English law. Yet, as concepts of child welfare and rights have come more to the foreground, parental primacy in core areas of a child’s best interests has gradually, but conspicuously, been eroded in practice. After a series of legal challenges and policy shifts by government in recent years, the guardianship of parents is now almost obliterated in some key policy areas.
Continue reading “Family Lives Matter” by Elizabeth Francis here (Conservative Woman UK).
The unstoppable march of state censorship
Vaguely worded hate-speech laws can end up criminalising almost any opinion. Paul Coleman is the executive director of ADF International, a human-rights organisation defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. He is the author of Censored: How European Hate Speech Laws are Threatening Freedom of Speech.
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Lois McLatchie on the Christian beliefs that are becoming Euro-crimes.
Continue readingThe stealthy cancelling of Mummy knows best
It used to be agreed that parents were responsible for their child’s best interests in matters of personal, emotional and physical development, but now it is seemingly becoming an assumption that the State is a better overseer of these interests. Official busybodies are increasingly creating opportunities to talk to children beyond the earshot of parents. They say that if you’re doing nothing wrong, why worry? But that’s not the point. It’s intrusive. And it’s creating an ever-increasing wedge in the parent-child bond, since the topics of conversation are personal and private. The more apathetic parents are to this interference with their natural authority, the more it will spread.
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Lizzie Troughton writes for ADF UK and can be found on Twitter at @francis_ea.
When a tweet can land you in jail: Criminal charges brought against Finnish MP
Imprisonment for posting a Bible tweet is now a very real possibility in Finland. The Finnish Prosecutor General has brought three criminal charges against Finnish Member of Parliament, Päivi Räsänen.
Continue reading10,000+ call for free speech to be protected on campus
Is there a free speech crisis at UK universities? At least 10,000 members of the public think so and have added their name to a petition addressed to Number 10.
Continue readingA Time for Hope for Free Speech?
“A common-sense judgment from Manchester County Court brings a beam of hope to what has been a long winter chill on expression,” writes communications officer Lois McLatchie.
Continue readingWorship ban in Ireland – doors remain closed over Easter
It’s known to be a season of hope, but Irish Christians cannot gather to worship at church this Easter Weekend.
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