News Bulletin 18 November 2011

Over 70 of Scotland’s largest evangelical churches have signed an open letter to First Minister Alex Salmond urging him not to redefine marriage — Tesco has sparked outrage after deciding to drop its support for the Cancer Research ‘Race for Life’, and then announcing that it will become a headline sponsor of Britain’s largest gay festival — Liverpool has become the first city in the UK to carry a homosexual rainbow emblem on some of its street signs — The world’s first official trial using human embryonic stem cells has been shelved — The Welsh Assembly Government wants to change the law so that doctors can take organs from dead people who did not give explicit consent before they died — The Prime Minister has selected his own choice of Bible verses to write out as part of the Peoples Bible celebration of 400 years of the King James Version — And the Queen has attended a special anniversary service at Westminster Abbey this week, also part of the King James Bible anniversary celebrations.