Some people think the recent vote to progress Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill means it is now law. But MPs are not the only ones with a vote. No bill can become law unless it is also approved by the House of Lords.
This is a week on which we will look back in horror. Our voices must not go quiet in the battle against the automatons of autonomy.
The Mayor of London sees no problem in letting people get away with carrying a little bit of cannabis for their own use. In fact, last month he told the Government it should consider decriminalising possession of ‘small quantities’.
Nicola Packer was recently found not guilty of having an illegal abortion. In England and Wales, it’s against the law for women to have a DIY home abortion using tablets after ten weeks, and Packer had been accused of knowingly taking abortion pills at home well after that. Marie Stopes International, which provided her with the abortion pills following a remote consultation, told her she was less than ten weeks along, when in fact she was 26 weeks pregnant.
The UK Supreme Court recently ruled that the definition of a woman is determined by biology not ideology for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. We asked Sam Webster, a Solicitor Advocate and the in-house Solicitor at The Christian Institute for his initial take on the implications for churches and Christians. Here’s what he has to say…
The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of Christians in post-apostolic church history. Martin Luther called it ‘the best and first general synod after that held by the holy apostles’. It produced a creed which, in the revised form sanctioned by the Council of Constantinople in the year 381, was soon being recited in all the churches as an act of worship. In many traditions it is still recited today.
