ats:
"Concerns arose when the student guild at Exeter University suspended the Christian union (CU) from its group. The guild said that, by asking members must sign a form saying they follow Christ, the CU breached equal opportunities and was not open to all."
Well, yes. Because that is breaching equal opportunity.
It's no different from creating a society that you can't join unless you are (or aren't) a specific nationality, say.
But it gets worse:
"Quite often in discussion of Christian attitudes to homosexuality (and this is often the presenting issue where Christian unions are concerned), it is taken for granted that any statement that a form of behaviour might be sinful is on a par with the expression of hate."
Because it is, Archbishop.
You can pussyfoot around it all you like, but what you're saying is that an entire class of people are innately evil. And yes, that's effectively an expression of hate.
ats: "As reported yesterday, there was an ad in the FT listing 4,000 musicians who supported retrospective term extension."
"If you read the list, you?ll see that at least some of these artists are apparently dead (e.g. Lonnie Donegan, died 4th November 2002; Freddie Garrity, died 20th May 2006)."