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Nuns and Rape
There has been an international response to the horrific gang rape of a nun in Nepal as I reported earlier. It is terrible that it takes such an extreme case to draw attention to what has been an...
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Nuns & Rape: how to help
An online donation service has now been set up for the Nepalese nun who was so terrifyingly raped a few weeks ago. It has been set up after consultation by Matt Frazer, under the banner of Equality Now...
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Telling it like it is: Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic-Checks UN Summit...
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Just War in theory and practice.
Some time ago I wrote a post detailing why I was opposed to the notion of a ‘just war’: essentially because the theory is basically a blueprint for ideological justification of war. Here’s an example...
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Why Buddhists Should be Vegetarian
The Buddha ate meat. This is a fairly well attested fact. The issue of vegetarianism is addressed a few times in the Suttas, notably the Jivaka Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya. The Buddha consistently...
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Why Buddhists Should Support Marriage Equality
Marriage equality is one of the key social and legal issues of our time. I’d like to offer a Buddhist perspective. As with so many ethical and social questions, especially those that involve sexuality,...
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Same sex marriage – the govt. consults with religious leaders
On the morning of Thursday 12 April, I attended a session of the Parliamentary hearings into the propsed same-sex marriage Bills currently under consideration in the Federal House of Representatives...
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The Problem with Nuns…
is not just a Buddhist thing. The Vatican has been enduring increasing levels of anxiety about the nuns, specifically the nuns of the US. The leading representative body for nuns in the US, the...
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And now, in religions’ baffling inability to cope with women…
A Christian group at Bristol University in England is being investigated for its discriminatory policies. Women are banned from teaching at their weekly meetings without their husbands beside them. The...
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Should we ban live sheep exports?
In 1986 I was an active member of Animal Liberation. Due to some quirk of regulations, the Government issued us with special passes that allowed us to enter and inspect without notification any place...
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