Feb 1, 2019 06:31 PM
(UK) School's lunch gender segregation 'in name of religion' blasted
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi...h-15766098
INTRO: A Birmingham MP has hit out at an Islamic school in the city which is still NOT allowing girls to eat their lunch until boys have finished. Khalid Mahmood said he was "astonished" during a segment on talkRADIO's breakfast show on Friday.
Al-Hijrah in Bordseley Green has been told in strong terms that its continued practice of segregating older boys and girls on faith grounds is against the law. The school received a letter from Ofsted in October stating that it was operating an "unlawful discriminatory policy” among secondary students.It was ordered to stop the unlawful practice by the Court of Appeal in 2017.
"They're supposed to be providing a good, sound education for young people, not restrict their horizons," Mr Mahmood said. Young women should "not be oppressed", Mr Mahmood added, before suggesting the school was taking children "backwards".
talkRADIO presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer she said that if the scenario was replaced with black children and white children, it would have been "dealt with three minutes after it happened". "If they were segregating and they were saying all the black children have to wait until the white children have eaten, that would be dealt with thr minutes after it happened," she said. "That would be going to court, people would be prosecuted, people would be out of their jobs. Why are we so slow to act when it involves girls? Is it because we give a free pass to religion?".
Mr Mahmood replied: "I think we do, and this is a big issue." "There are far too many of these schools given licenses to operate and I think we have to get much more stringent about looking at the curriculums they provide and the way that they do it."
MORE: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi...h-15766098
(US) Kim Davis may be forced to pay $225,000 over gay marriage licence battle
https://www.christiantoday.com/us/kim-da...131628.htm
INTRO: Kim Davis, the Christian clerk jailed after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licences, may be forced to pay $225,000 in legal and court fees incurred by gay couples suing her. Despite publicly praising her, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin said she should pay the costs and has lodged an appeal against a court order putting the financial burden on the state's taxpayers.
'Davis represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky when she refused to issue marriage licenses to legally eligible couples. The buck stops there,' wrote US District Judge David Bunning. The case was being heard at the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday. In his appeal, Bevin said Davis had broken the law in refusing to issue the marriage licences to gay couples and that Kentucky's taxpayers 'should not have to collectively bear the financial responsibility for Davis' intransigence'.
MORE: https://www.christiantoday.com/us/kim-da...131628.htm
(UK) New plans to plant church in every housing estate in the country
https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Ne...he-country
RELEASE: At the General Synod on 20th-23rd February, the church will discuss a motion which will acknowledge that there has historically been a marginalisation of people in social housing by both the church and the state. Plans drafted by the Estates Evangelism Task Group reveal a desire to change this and 'see a serving, loving and worshipping Christian community on every significant social housing estate in the country'.
The church will discuss urging every diocese to build ministries in estates and involve the residents in their mission strategies, such as considering where they plant churches or deploy clergy to.
Speaking to Premier about this vision, Reverend Helen Shannon, who is part of the Estate Evangelism task group, said they were looking particularly at estates that had around 500 houses in: "If you look at parishes in the Church of England, those make up a fifth of the parishes. Nearly 50% of the population live actually in those parishes but out of those parishes there is only a third whose church building is actually on or near the estate. In London you can have a succesful church...impacting the community, seeing social transformation but actually they're not impacting the estate down the road. And so I think that's where our feeling for 'sent-ness' comes from - that actually we have to go to those communities that can be isolated within great pockets of wealth. We can't just sit and wait for people to come to us."
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi...h-15766098
INTRO: A Birmingham MP has hit out at an Islamic school in the city which is still NOT allowing girls to eat their lunch until boys have finished. Khalid Mahmood said he was "astonished" during a segment on talkRADIO's breakfast show on Friday.
Al-Hijrah in Bordseley Green has been told in strong terms that its continued practice of segregating older boys and girls on faith grounds is against the law. The school received a letter from Ofsted in October stating that it was operating an "unlawful discriminatory policy” among secondary students.It was ordered to stop the unlawful practice by the Court of Appeal in 2017.
"They're supposed to be providing a good, sound education for young people, not restrict their horizons," Mr Mahmood said. Young women should "not be oppressed", Mr Mahmood added, before suggesting the school was taking children "backwards".
talkRADIO presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer she said that if the scenario was replaced with black children and white children, it would have been "dealt with three minutes after it happened". "If they were segregating and they were saying all the black children have to wait until the white children have eaten, that would be dealt with thr minutes after it happened," she said. "That would be going to court, people would be prosecuted, people would be out of their jobs. Why are we so slow to act when it involves girls? Is it because we give a free pass to religion?".
Mr Mahmood replied: "I think we do, and this is a big issue." "There are far too many of these schools given licenses to operate and I think we have to get much more stringent about looking at the curriculums they provide and the way that they do it."
MORE: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/mi...h-15766098
(US) Kim Davis may be forced to pay $225,000 over gay marriage licence battle
https://www.christiantoday.com/us/kim-da...131628.htm
INTRO: Kim Davis, the Christian clerk jailed after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licences, may be forced to pay $225,000 in legal and court fees incurred by gay couples suing her. Despite publicly praising her, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin said she should pay the costs and has lodged an appeal against a court order putting the financial burden on the state's taxpayers.
'Davis represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky when she refused to issue marriage licenses to legally eligible couples. The buck stops there,' wrote US District Judge David Bunning. The case was being heard at the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday. In his appeal, Bevin said Davis had broken the law in refusing to issue the marriage licences to gay couples and that Kentucky's taxpayers 'should not have to collectively bear the financial responsibility for Davis' intransigence'.
MORE: https://www.christiantoday.com/us/kim-da...131628.htm
(UK) New plans to plant church in every housing estate in the country
https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Ne...he-country
RELEASE: At the General Synod on 20th-23rd February, the church will discuss a motion which will acknowledge that there has historically been a marginalisation of people in social housing by both the church and the state. Plans drafted by the Estates Evangelism Task Group reveal a desire to change this and 'see a serving, loving and worshipping Christian community on every significant social housing estate in the country'.
The church will discuss urging every diocese to build ministries in estates and involve the residents in their mission strategies, such as considering where they plant churches or deploy clergy to.
Speaking to Premier about this vision, Reverend Helen Shannon, who is part of the Estate Evangelism task group, said they were looking particularly at estates that had around 500 houses in: "If you look at parishes in the Church of England, those make up a fifth of the parishes. Nearly 50% of the population live actually in those parishes but out of those parishes there is only a third whose church building is actually on or near the estate. In London you can have a succesful church...impacting the community, seeing social transformation but actually they're not impacting the estate down the road. And so I think that's where our feeling for 'sent-ness' comes from - that actually we have to go to those communities that can be isolated within great pockets of wealth. We can't just sit and wait for people to come to us."
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