The Church of England has produced an excellent response to the government’s initial proposal for a single equality bill in the UK. Here are the best bits. Gender reassignment (10.1 – 10.15) 50. We note that the Gender Directive is …
It’s been pointed out to me that the Employment Tribunal judgement on Reaney vs. the Hereford DBF contains either a typo OR a misreading of the 2003 Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations. Let me explain. In section 69 (no jokes …
Hereford – Did the Tribunal misread the 2003 Act? Read more →
The full tribunal judgement is available online here. It’s a 1.2Mb download which I’m going to read now and then comment on if necessary. OK, my initial thoughts, numbered by sections of the Tribunal’s judgement: 13 – The sentence “In …
I hesitated before typing that title, as I wanted to correctly describe the situation recently in Chelmsford. The Bishop, John Gladwin, refused to ordain Richard Wood as a deacon because Richard Wood refused to take communion with him afterwards (and …
Briefly, the motion was amended to become a nothing motion. Listen to the debate below though (if you have the time).
Technorati tells me that I’m in the top 90,000 blogs that it tracks. That might not seem that impressive, but given that Technorati tracks 55 million blogs, that puts me in the top 0.2% of all bloggers (or top 1 …