• Peter Tatchell in Glasgow

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    You’re invited to come and hear Peter Tatchell give a human rights lecture on Saturday 19 July 2014 at 6.30 pm in St Mary’s.

    He’s also going to be doing a forum after the 10.30 am service on Sunday.

4 responses to “This ain’t persecution”

  1. Beth Routledge Avatar

    Yep. And I think that the Primus has got it badly wrong in responding to this one.

  2. Graham Evans Avatar
    Graham Evans

    Allowing political and religious ad would turn us into another US, where political and religious “debate” centres on who can raise, or already has, the most money.

  3. Ross Kennedy Avatar
    Ross Kennedy

    Oh yes, and while we’re at it we had better ban all films from public showing which contain any religious content – eg: ‘Schindlers List’, ‘Brooklyn’, ‘Magdalen Sisters’, ‘Fury’, ‘Amazing Grace’, ‘Doubt’, etc,etc. We should not risk offending anyone should we? Idiocy – whose idiocy?

  4. Kelvin Avatar

    Surely wanting political and religious ads banned from cinemas is about good taste rather than offence.

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