Both Ben Cohen and Prince Harry show off the T-Shirt for the Ben Cohen Foundation, the world's first foundation dedicated to "raising awareness of the long-term, damaging effects of bullying, and funding those doing real-world work to stop … [Read more...]
Another Wasted Life
April 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Why do our youths feel so isolated that they take their own lives? In the USA yet again another young man has taken his own life due to bullying; 14 year old Kenneth took his ownlife on Saturday due to severe bullying at school and rejection by his … [Read more...]
Education and Discrimination – Let’s All Fight to Stop It!!
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I have previously written about bullying and in particular bullying in schools. Under The Sex Discrimination (NI) Order 1976, public authorities have a duty to get rid of sex discrimination and promote equality between the sexes. This means … [Read more...]
Gay Marriage – Yes/No? Even religion can’t make it’s mind up!
March 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
"Religion is primarily a search for security and not a search for truth." John Shelby Spong, retired bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA As I am writing the debate over 'full' recognised gay marriages is raging but here in the United Kingdom & … [Read more...]
Should faith perpetuate bullying?
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We have previously commented on school bullying and in particular homophobic school bullying, and how it is affecting our youth and our schools. In the last week the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has rejected a submission by the … [Read more...]
St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly adopted
February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A second reading is underway to prohibit the ‘so-called propaganda of “sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, and paedophilia to minors”’ in St Petersburg! This reading into law goes against Russia’s international human … [Read more...]
Gay Marriage: California Freedom – maybe soon
February 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Overview Proposition 8, the voter lead block on gay marriage in California, has been ruled as unconstitutional as it violates the rights of gay Californians. Introduction In the land of the free and in a country which has as its … [Read more...]
Revolt in the Church of England
February 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
The debate on gay marriage within the Church of England has become lively. It faces a rebellion from many of its clergy over a ban on gay civil partnership ceremonies on its premises. Nearly 100 clergy from the London diocese, which has 470 … [Read more...]
When does a child have rights?
February 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Most countries—though not the United States of America—have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child which was first adopted in 1989. The Convention accords to children a wide range of rights including, most centrally, … [Read more...]
Gay Marriage: Church of England loses faith.
February 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, warns David Cameron not to legalise gay marriage within a church, not one of his churches, mind you, but places of worship owned by other religions, such as the Quakers, the Unitarians and some Liberal Jewish … [Read more...]