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Friday, 17 December 2021

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Liz Truss

Equalities Minister Liz Truss has said parents and teachers will still be able to discuss with children “whether they are transgender or not” amid fears the freedom to explore the issues privately could be curtailed under a broad conversion therapy ban.

 
 

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Same-sex wedding cake

The Evangelical Fellowship of the Church in Wales (EFCW) has branded the push to introduce same-sex marriage there as “contrary to God’s revelation”.

 
 
Pregnant lady

MLAs have voted against protecting children diagnosed with a disability in the womb from late abortion.

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‘I was put under pressure to abort my daughter because she has spina bifida’

 
UK passport

A woman’s attempt to force the Government to issue her with a passport that did not record her sex has ended in failure at the Supreme Court.

 
Sad girl

A rape victim felt so unsafe she had to leave a Brighton-based rape support meeting, after it allowed a man to attend because he identified as a woman.

 
 
Prison cell

Prescribing methadone for heroin addiction in prisons is to be replaced by “abstinence-based methods”, the Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has announced.

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Govt publishes 10-year plan to tackle drugs

 
Boy using computer

Proposed changes to the draft Online Safety Bill do not include mandatory age verification checks for all commercial pornography websites.

 
Marriage

The role of marriage is often ignored in discussions on economic inequality, a religious think tank has said.

 
Portstewart Bible verse

A local council in Northern Ireland has dismissed claims by an ‘equality expert’ that repainting Bible texts on a local sea wall may be in breach of its equality scheme.

 
 

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