Religion
Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The amendment has been tabled with the support of Humanists UK and it is expected that it will be cosponsored by crossbench… Read more »
Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson MP has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to keep the 50% cap on faith-based admissions in new religious schools. Since 2011 all new state schools have had to be free schools and they have been subject to such a cap. But the Schools Bill is set… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt Harriet Harman is facing up to an entirely different level of political opposition today after Pope Benedict XVI came out against her equality bill. Speaking to Catholic bishops from England and Wales who made the al-Limina pilgrimage to the tombs of Peter and Paul in Rome, the pope revealed his discomfort with… Read more »
by politics.co.uk staff The Lords have voted down three amendments to the equality bill, which campaigners said would prevent churches from denying jobs to gay people. Ministers insisted they intended only to clarify the existing bill, but in a series of well-attended votes, Lords rejected their arguments. The first vote had a majority of 38,… Read more »
