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The death penalty?!!!:eek: It's very much far from a 'done-deal' that that won't still be in there. Anyway, you can't - and shouldn't - police what two consenting adults get up to in the bedroom. (Different if they purport to be Christians in my church, but that's no business of the state either.)

I utterly and unconditionally condemn this law which threatens to impose the death penalty for same-s*x acts.

Yes and no. I am heartily sick of the sight of our PM criticising one lot of Arab despots (Gaddafi, Assad) whilst at the same time kow-towing to others (the Ibn Saud family and the Qataris) with the very dubious aim of selling them arms with which they can kill their own people. It is of course...

Yes but your 'boom' (and it is all relative) has been in part financed by money the government doesn't have, and the day of reckoning is fast approaching...

The stock market tumble yesterday has far more to do with the markets' fears about the Eurozone crisis than it does with the US election result. What markets don't like is uncertainty eg: a re-run of the 2000 Presidential election where the outcome was in doubt for weeks. Fortunately that didn't...

It doesn't. It provides - as resources permit - healthcare free at the point of delivery for those who wish to avail themselves of it. Privately-funded - either directly or via insurance - is not illegal in this country, so it is incorrect to say that the government controls access to...

T'other side of t'coin, as folks up north here say.

OK, some context. Firstly, there is nothing to stop the young woman concerned directly approaching the pharmaceutical company privately ie: outwith the NHS and taking them up on their free trial. The NHS of course will then not be obliged to continue to treat her with that drug once the free...

Precisely; in addition, there's much with which you can get away when you're not just up for election that you can't when you are.

God's not up for election next month (deo gratias!).

Yes, but as a lawyer I am well aware that I am in a walk of life where I have to be very careful with my words. Politics is another such walk of life. I think that the conservatives ought to be concerned about whether people are going to vote for them so they can do the necessary work in the...

Flavius Eutropius was his father's father, Coel his mother's father. I'll keep the cigar and smoke it, thanks!

Yes, 'Old King Cole' was supposedly his maternal grandfather.

Yeah, an old Connie is my 55th great-grandfather. The family's gone down in its status since then of course!

Cheers! The 'chi-rho' symbol (roughly similar to a Roman alphabet 'P' overlaying an 'X') would have been intelligible to Constantine and many of his men, despite its Greek origins, if it was used at all* because Constantine came from the eastern part of the Empire where Greek was the dominant...

What Ann said: it can be taken out of context or be taken to mean that the rape is what God intended, rather than the life.

Nope, just ensuring that people here get to see both sides; we read an awful lot - rightly in most cases - on this board about the stupidities and in some case lies put about by Obama and other Democrats, and it's important to realise that neither party is exempt from half-wittedness and crass...

On what grounds do you make that rather breathtaking assertion? I comment on what I observe; you don't need to be within the jurisdiction of the USA to be able to do that.

:applause: Sen Mourdock should encourage Ken to stand for his seat - he puts it so much better.

What Saturneptune said. Republicans seem to make a habit of alienating potential women voters in this campaign.