AFTER seven-and-a-half years, the ‘gay cake case’ is finally over. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has thrown out Gareth Lee’s challenge to the UK Supreme Court’s unanimous 2018 ruling in favour of Ashers Baking Company.
On 8 January 2014 the House of Lords voted overwhelmingly to protect free speech from unjustified state interference.
Every year presents its own challenges, and 2021 has been no different.
The government’s proposals for a broad ‘conversion therapy’ ban could result in criminalising the ordinary work of churches. Dr Sharon James explains that the new law could include some prayer, preaching and pastoral care.
THERE are many shocking things about the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate, including the use of Death Row drugs, the weakening of universal protections on the grounds of disability or mental health problems, and the euthanising of non-mentally competent adults and children. Even so, a move to the use of personal gas chambers in Switzerland is chilling.
In October, a judge dismissed 28 divorce applications because they were identical.
