By Rod Benson Freelance writer Eve Tushnet is an amazing person. The daughter of a liberal Harvard law professor and a former civil rights activist, Tushnet “came out” as a lesbian as a young teenager. She went off to Yale University, where she attended a meeting of a conservative student group, intending to laugh and [...]
Archive for the ‘human rights’ Category
Fred Nile moves to ban the burqa
Posted: September 8, 2010 by rodbenson in discrimination, human rights, multiculturalismBy Rod Benson One of the most confronting images on our streets today is the full-face burqa worn by Muslim women. For some, it is a symbol of religious identity. For many others, it is a symbol of the suppression of women. And recently the burqa has come into question for the fact that it [...]
Why we should not ban the burqa
Posted: September 8, 2010 by rodbenson in Islam, human rights, multiculturalismBy Rod Benson Last week Senator Cory Bernardi called for a ban on the burqa, the full-face Muslim head covering, as a security hazard, a symbol of “the repressive domination of women,” something that compromises “important aspects of human communication,” and is downright “un-Australian.” Many will agree. Even journalist Elizabeth Farrelly argued that the burqa [...]
Baptist pastor threatened by police
Posted: May 21, 2010 by rodbenson in Baptists, human rights, persecution, religious freedomBy Rod Benson This arrived in my email this morning: Washington (BWA) — Zaur Balaev, pastor of a Baptist house church in the town of Aliabad in the northwestern region of Zakatala in Azerbaijan, was warned that he does not have the right to gather church members for worship, as the church is not registered. [...]
The Westminster Declaration
Posted: May 7, 2010 by rodbenson in ethics, human rights, politics and faith, religious freedomBy Rod Benson The Catholic Church has its papal encyclicals, and Protestants – especially the evangelicals among them – have their declarations. “Westminster 2010” is a declaration of Christian beliefs about life, marriage and conscience, written by Christian leaders in the United Kingdom, seeking to encourage debate in the lead-up to last Thursday’s British general [...]
