@OBEhizele This is a very good point. I think calibrating to need is the aim. Maybe the problem is that race is both too crude a parameter to calibrate responses by - and too fraught for such responses ever to be viewed as fair and impartial.
@johnpauldickson And of course it was a group of women who were the first and principle witnesses of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ and - therefore - the 'authorised teachers' of these facts to the disciples and ... well basically the entire body of Christ
@johnpauldickson I think this is very wise and godly even though i am 80:20 the other way on this issue -( the woman witnesses , Romans 12, 16, 1 Tim 3 all hold more weight for me than the highly disputable interpretations of 1 Tim 2:12)
Conservatives need to be careful in their insistence that God is male, lest we undermine the very basis on which we distinguish the human sexes.
There’s only one irrefutable, fact-based way to argue for the human sex binary: males are humans whose bodies are organised toward the production of small gametes and females are humans whose bodies are organised toward the production of large gametes.
God, of course, cannot be male in this sense.
Designating God a “man” (rather than a “woman”) on the grounds that He (a) has some traditionally masculine traits, or (b) asks us to call him “He” and “Father,” risks undermining the very grounding conservatives need to preserve the human sex binary. After all, what are we going to say to the trans man who has some traditionally masculine traits and asks us to call her “him”?
Seven Afghan refugees have been accused of being part of a grooming gang and charged with rape and child sex abuse offences.
Norfolk police said that the men were charged as part of an investigation into group-based child sexual exploitation in Norwich.
They appeared in court today, accused of sexual offences between August 2023 and May 2025 against two victims who were in their early-to-mid teens.
@itvpeston@CharlesbyeStrat@MrLeeCain Bizarre. Kemi's the best thing to happen to the conservative s for years - perhaps even 14 years. I wonder what his agenda is?
There is a by election in Aberdeen South. Time for Unionists to unite to beat the SNP.
Scottish Conservatives were just 3.5% behind at the recent election. We can win and stop another nationalist getting into Parliament.
@KemiBadenoch shows decisive leadership yet again.
Compare that to Reform in London, who backed Sadiq Khan’s Labour in the London Assembly against the @Conservatives
A great betrayal of Londoners, but no action was taken by @Nigel_Farage
Vote Reform, Get Khan.