Landmark win for Darlington Nurses
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Date posted: 19 Jun 2025
Eight pioneering nurses who formed their own union to defend the rights of women “have won a landmark battle for a female-only changing room,” website dailymail.co.uk reports.
“The Darlington nurses launched a legal action saying transgender policies put them at risk, deprived them of dignity and breached their human rights,” according to the Daily Mail.
Parents told to ‘wake up’ to school sex ed
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Date posted: 1 Nov 2020
Parents need to ‘wake up’ to what their children are being taught in sex education lessons, an ethical think tank is warning.
The Values Foundation (TVF) – which seeks to uphold the ‘centrality of faith and traditional family values in British education’ – was speaking to Evangelicals Now in the same week the government clarified its position on transgender ideology in the classroom.
Harry Potter and the half-baked laws
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Date posted: 1 Aug 2020
It was reported in June that the UK government intends to drop plans for allowing people who claim to be transgender to self-identify as such.
This proposal was first mooted by the government in 2018 (en September 2018). The result of the consultation has never been published*.
Asda, the Baroness and the Booker Prize
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Date posted: 1 Aug 2020
In June, Asda sent an email to customers with information on diversity that included links to a book containing an account of a child involved in oral sex with an older person from an organisation which uses slogans linked to paedophiles.
After an outcry on Twitter about the materials produced by Diversity Role Models (DRM), Baroness Nicholson, a prolific tweeter and active member of the House of Lords contacted the CEO of ASDA, Roger Burnley. This resulted in both Asda issuing an apology, and DRM removing some of what it cited as ‘misinterpreted’ materials from the packs, which Asda said was at its request.
SURRENDER OF THE FAITH?
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Date posted: 1 Feb 2020
On 17 December the deeply controversial appointment of Stephen Cottrell as Archbishop of York was announced.
Carefully selected quotes from his speech to the press1 present a picture of an evangelical whose focus is on Christ. ‘What binds us together is … our faith in Jesus Christ. It’s our baptism and belonging to each other which is what really matters.’ However these quotes are removed from their context, and the context provides an entirely different view of the incoming Archbishop.
The beginning of the end of safeguarding?
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Date posted: 1 Jan 2020
A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) document from 2009, updated in 20181, appears to be the driving force behind the end of effective safeguarding of children. The document teaches masturbation to small children and promotes gender ideology.
The 140-page treatise encourages early exposure to the details of reproduction and self-stimulation. Binary humanity is accepted as an outdated idea.2
Bishop’s version in doubt
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Date posted: 1 Aug 2019
Representatives from the Renew steering committee supported the account of John Parker at a meeting on 12 June 2019 regarding his resignation as vicar and school governor (en July). The representatives were part of a meeting of around 30 local clergy at which the Bishop of Chelmsford used language of leaving, and were present at a meeting in which communion was broken.
Bishop Stephen Cottrell disputed Parker’s account in a letter circulated to the clergy by the Bishop’s office in the Diocese of Chelmsford. A statement on GAFCON and the Church Society websites noted the Bishop had ‘carefully worded’ the letter to give the ‘impression that the Bishop had never suggested that Parker should leave the church’ due to his beliefs.
Pansexual President?
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Date posted: 1 May 2019
The Baptist Union has received an application for the post of President in 2020-21, supported by 25 Assembly members, from a self-declared pansexual woman.
The Baptist Union asked people to prayer-fully consider which of two candidates should serve the Union as President. The statement says: ‘The question for discernment is who is the most appropriate candidate for this particular season in our Union’s life’.
COMMON SENSE WINS
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Date posted: 1 Nov 2018
The unanimous decision by the five justices of the Supreme Court on 10 October was greeted as a victory for free speech.
They ruled that Ashers, the Belfast bakery, was not obliged to make a cake emblazoned with the message ‘support gay marriage’. If anyone needed clarification that this case was about a message and not about discriminating against a person, Daniel McArthur of Ashers ended his statement outside the court saying Mr Lee ‘will always be welcome in one of our shops’.
Gender Recognition Act – speak up
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Date posted: 1 Sep 2018
The government opened a consultation in July, closing on 19 October, on changes to the Gender Recognition Act, which seeks to allow people to self-identify as transgender without having to make any formal declaration.
Many groups including Christians, feminists and lesbians, are greatly concerned about the dramatic effect upon society the legal changes would bring. They believe that women’s rights achieved over many decades will be rolled back. Women who have tried to meet together to discuss the impact of trans issues have experienced violence and found venues in which to meet almost impossible to come by (en July 2018).
REASONABLE TREATMENT?
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Date posted: 1 Aug 2017
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) published new guidance for pharmacy professionals on 22 June.
It provides a kind of ‘reasonable accommodation’, something that many Christian pharmacists feared would be dispensed with despite the consultation process earlier in the year.
Ofsted report defies logic
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Date posted: 1 Mar 2015
Ofsted has been described as being ‘at war’ with the Government regarding the evaluation of ‘British values’ as further school reports in the North East of England in mid-January saw a top school placed into Special Measures and another told to close.
Grindon Hall, a Christian school in Sunderland with some of the best exam results in its area, was given the worst possible grading by Ofsted in a report blasted as ‘defying logic’. The report stated that its performance is inadequate and a draft version of it also included a paragraph attacking the school’s Christian ethos. This paragraph was removed by Ofsted in the report it eventually released.