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Pro and anti-Proposition 8 protesters rally in front of the San Francisco City Hall as the California Supreme Court holds a session in the to determine the definition of marriage (Strauss v. Horton cases). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Clive Palmer’s plan   to “solve” the debate about changing the definition of marriage fails to acknowledge that it is not just church’s beliefs that need protection. Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Lyle Shelton said individuals, business owners, ethnic communities, and Christian and Muslim schools also had beliefs that could fall foul of anti-discrimination law if marriage was redefined in law. " It’s great to see Clive offering ideas and it is good to see that he recognises that churches, mosques and other places of worship will lose the freedom to practice millennia-old beliefs about marriage unless protections are granted. “But Clive needs to realise that many groups and individuals besides churches will lose their freed...

Image via Wikipedia Despite Britain being an officially Christian country with a majority Christian population and a Christian heritage reaching back to the 7th century AD , the UK’s equalities chief has said that Christians need to “integrate” better into Britain’s “modern liberal democracy.”  Compared to Muslims , he said, Christians are “more militant” and have a harder time blending in. “There are a lot of Christian activist voices who appear bent on stressing the kind of persecution that I don’t think really exists in this country,” said Trevor Phillips , chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The current movement towards doctrinal and moral orthodoxy in the Anglican and Catholic churches is a revival of “an old time religion incompatible with modern society” that is clashing with “mainstream” views, especially on homosexuality, he continued. Phillips told the Sunday Telegraph in an interview this weekend that while most actual cases of religious d...