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Police probe guard for barring trans man from female toilets 27 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
Police have started a hate crime investigation after a security guard prevented a transsexual man from using the female toilets in an Edinburgh shopping centre. River Song, 18, claims a security guard...
Web porn filters could harm gay youths, says charity 23 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
Default blocks on internet pornography may stop gay youths accessing information, the head of a leading sexual health charity for young people says. Simon Blake, the chief executive of Brook, says he ...
Bishop backs rebellion over Guides godless oath 23 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
A group of Girl Guide and Brownie leaders will not use a new promise which removes reference to God, and has received the backing of Bishop Nazir-Ali. One atheist volunteer helper has accused the grou...
Macmillan dictionary redefines ‘marriage’ 23 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
The Macmillan dictionary has redefined the word “marriage” to include same-sex couples, and may change its definition of “husband” and “wife”. The dictionary’s definition of the institution is now, “t...
Bring on multi-partner marriage, says writer 22 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Introducing polygamy in the wake of same-sex marriage might not be such a bad idea, according to a writer who has criticised the “tyranny of the heterosexual couple form”. Writing in The Guardian, Lau...
Rowan Williams: I’m sorry for ‘Christians, grow up’ comment 22 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
The former Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised for saying British Christians who come under attack for their faith should “grow up”. Last week Rowan Williams said being made to feel “mildly uncomf...
Canada: Atheist wins case against Gideons in schools 21 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Schools in a region of Canada have been forced to change their policies on distributing Gideon Bibles following a challenge by an atheist. Rene Chouinard took his case to the Human Rights Tribunal of ...
French Government foists ‘gender theory’ on schools 21 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
The socialist Government in France has been accused of forcing schools to follow ‘gender theory’. Earlier this year, the French Government passed a law to introduce genderless marriage. Now an educati...
Police act to stop assisted suicide of ‘vulnerable’ man 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Police have arrested two people who were planning to take a 71-year-old man, believed to have dementia, to an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. The police described the man as vulnerable, and to...
Multiple partner relationships could become norm, says BBC 20 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
Monogamy is out of fashion and polyamorous relationships, involving multiple partners, could become the norm, a controversial BBC investigation has said. BBC Radio 4 documentary, Monogamy and the Rule...
