Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
How did this become about the "rights" of churches to exclude people from their rites?
I believe it's a deliberately strategy of muddying the waters when McCroskie et al says that this law-change will force churches to allow teh gays to wed in their church.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Idiot Savant,
That they refused to marry you, certainly. Because officiating marriages (as opposed to weddings) is a public function conferred by law, not a private, religious one.
Gotcha. I see what you are saying now. This makes it all the more important to differentiate between marriage (civil) and wedding (faith-based) in this debate.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Idiot Savant,
Which obviously means that it will not permit discrimination on the basis of grounds prohibited by the HRA.
This is just silly. The same argument could be used for me to complain that I'm being discriminated against because my local Rabbi refuses to marry me in his Synagogue on the grounds that I'm not Jewish.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Angus Robertson,
By Emma and Idiot/Savant answering to say that yes it does and that they could be legally forced to.
where do they say that?
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Yes it does, if you go to a church and force them to witness a marriage that violates their religion you are being a total fuckwit to them. You are trampling on their religous beliefs and spitting in their faces.
WTF? Is this some kind of agent provocateur stuff? Where did you get the idea that the law, if passed, would demand churches do this?
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Hard News: Keeping our heads on "bath salts", in reply to Richard Aston,
Wouldn't be very helpful to have a web site sharing lots of people's experiences and info on the wide range of stuff out there now?
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Hard News: Keeping our heads on "bath salts", in reply to Tom Semmens,
I mean, we are a real country with a proper government who are presided over by the Queen of England, for God’s sake, not some loud foreign chap with a penchant for to much gold braid on his uniform
Not like the Netherlands or Portugal you mean?
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Sacha,
Attract Swedish migrants, etc
why else would I be here? ;-)
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The sheer virtuosity of modern conference presentations is a thing to behold.
Comic Sans, amirite...
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Tony Siu,
using Comic San font is not the worst thing ever!
Indeed. I am grateful that they didn't use Papyrus.