Careful what you pray for

PrayingThis is a glimpse of what might have been for Lilian Ladele and Gary McFarlane, the Christian martyrs whose claims of religious discrimination were recently dismissed by the European Court of Human Rights.

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Poor Ickle Peter Hitchens

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Peter isn’t a happy bunny. So what’s new?

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The ECtHR Decisions: More Thoughts, and “What If”

ECHR2This follows yesterday’s post where I discussed the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights concerning religious discrimination against four Christians in the UK. Here I explore things a bit further and also analyse the possible consequences of alternative judgements.

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Some Good News for Secularists

ECHRTwo bits of good news in twenty four hours.  It’s fun to be a secularist.

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Anne Atkins and Michael Portillo: fashionable nonsense

Freedom of conscience isn’t for everyone, and gender equality is a “fashion”.

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