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Join me and my guests on Sunday from 8.30 am for this week's edition of Sunday Sequence.
MAKING HISTORY: You can hear the discussion we recorded at Broadcasting House on Thursday evening, with historians, teachers and broadcasters reflecting on the challenge of dealing with history on radio and television.
TRIDENT: The Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens, Dr Andrew Dorman, a defence analyst at King's College, London, and Morag Milne from the Church of Scotland disagree about the moral case for replacing Britain's independent nuclear deterrent.
MIXED ESTATES: Laura Hayden reports on a creative inititative by the Housing Executive to accommodate people in mixed relationships: two new integrated estates where couples in mixed-faith relationships can live in an atmosphere of harmony and solidarity.
MEGAN'S LAW: Should the UK introduce an American-style Megan's Law, which gives the public access to information on convicted child sex offenders living in their local area? This week, the Northern Ireland Sex Offender Strategic Management Committee gave more details than ever before about the geographical location of sex offenders here. Its report revealed there are almost 700 registered sex offenders living in Northern Ireland with the greatest number based in north and south Belfast. We debate the policy with William McAuley, the strategy and policy co-ordinator of the Sex Offender Strategic Management Committee , Val Owens of the Probation Board, and Olwen Lyner from the Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders.
ANGLICANISM IN CRISIS: Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent of The Times, assesses the implications of Dr Rowan Williams's response this week to the US Episcopal Church's refusal to comply why the recommendations of the Windsor Report.
CHRISTOPHOBIA: Speaking in the current edition of The Spectator, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has spoken out against what he calls "Christophobia" -- an anti-Christian bias -- in the media. We examine the claim with journalist and Catholic commentator Peter Jennings and Maggie Brown, a media writer with The Guardian.
THE SOMME: Our London critic Judith Elliott was among the first to see a new exhibition on the Somme which has just opened at the National Army Museum.
Comments
Christophobia? Let's see you define that one! - Especially after all the madness in these comments when people tried to define homophobia. Is it an irrational fear of Bible thumpers?
Megan's Law has been a success in the USA. Many children have been rescued and many sex offenders given harsh sentences. To those who think about human rights, sex offenders with their crime resigned all forms of human rights. Sex Offenders deserve life imprisonment with chemical castration!!
Human rights are forms of respect for people because they are human, not because they are good.
Sex offenders commit horrible violations of other persons. (So do people who cause death and serious injury - albeit unintentionally - by speeding. Or by talking on their mobile phones whilst driving.)
Where I come from, people just send round "the boys" with baseball bats and iron bars... Megan's Law surely plays into the hands of such vigilantes.
Anyone who is accused might not live long enough to defend themself in court, let alone survive a lifetime of abuse in prison.
DOJ spam Alert Protect whats in your wallet
Our court systems has adjusted it's marketing plan to include a way out of the being on the registry for sex offenders.
Yes you can get off the registry.
It reads like an email from an oppressed infidel in a rich oil country with tons of money at the end of the rainbow.
All you have to do is sue your government.
following steps are necessary.
1. Sign on with the attorney who emails you.
2. Except his offer to win you twenty five million dollars.
3. Allow them to offer less.
4. Understand that the government changed the law and statutes of limitations have run out.
5. Send your check for $2, 700.00 to file a writ of habeas corpus.
Now just like the guy down the street who has so much money coming in the mail from a rich oil buddy you too can feel rich again before these sex law destroyed your life.
Again and again, political proponents of harming other, need desperately to expand there horizons as does most mushroom people who us old outdated information to create a law.
See some real number at:
The huge and destructive mistake made by the original therapist who said sex offenders are stuck in a rut of abuse have since been proven completely wrong and society only knows the lie.
When a government uses religious motives with inaccurate information they look and sound like other countries who stone their young. No good can come from this nor will any country respect their people who chose to tear down or harm it people. More damaging is the fact that the truth was hidden due to greed. That is not how people who want to best look out for it people placing priorities on destroying the fabric that makes community's strong, namely Family. Honest mistakes is how most get on the registry.