The UK Home Office has opened a public consultation on gay marriage and changing gender in marriage. Let them know what you think here!

What do people think? So far the only thing that I really take issue with is that it is only sticking with "voluntary basis for faith groups and with no religious content" with regards to faith-based marriages. This ( Read more... )

Really?

The Daily Fail fails spectatularly, this time at religious tolerance and knowing anyfuckingthing at all about Paganism.
Article about Druidism being made an official religion.
I...can't even begin to point out how eye-bleedingly wrong this article is. Just please read it for yourself, flail and shout a bit, then sign the petition here
I'll try ( Read more... )

"Dort, wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbennt man am Ende auch Menschen"
Where they burn books, they will, in the end, also burn people
- Heinrich Heine, Almansor 1821

Right, so I'm working in Durham County Council, and while most of the people are lovely most of the time, it can be a little backwards.
And sometimes it can be outright misogynist, homophobic, transphobic and racist.

On Monday the 17th (so next Monday), the wonderful Equality & Diversity department are marking the International Against Homophobia ( Read more... )

First of all- if you haven't voted, go and do so, m'kay?

Secondly- today is also the day of the local elections in my home ward (and where I'm still registered to vote) of Hammersmith. In 2005 the Conservatives got in and ruined it. It has always been an area of extremes: vast wealth and poverty rest close next to each other; old white bigotry and ( Read more... )

Dear people,
Someone is being wrong, not just on the internet, but in real life.
Read this, get angry, raise hell.

Thank you sisters and brothers

Keep up the good work :D

I stayed up to see it happen, and opened a bottle of champagne I had been given for my birthday. I felt it was a suitable occassion. It was wonderful to see, and although I had been a supporter before, Obama's speech made me even more hopeful than before. Among other things, he said "gay", in front of everyone, and said that ( Read more... )