''katanya pada majlis makan malam 1Malaysia anjuran Dewan Perhimpunan Cina Kuala Lumpur (DPCKL), di Kuala Lumpur''
''Saya berasa kagum bahawa sebutan Salam 1Malaysia telah menjadi kelaziman ramai pihak''
''....turut memuji beberapa langkah kerajaan untuk menggalakkan perpaduan kaum melalui konsep Satu Malaysia.'''
''kejayaan dan populariti 1Malaysia juga telah menyebabkan ada pihak tertentu memperkenalkan konsep "Middle Malaysia". ''
Apalah yang hangpa dok hingaq kecoh-kecoh sana sini pasal motto ni, tak kiralah satu Malaysiakah, dua Malaysiakah, dua tiga Malaysia berlarikah, satu Hadhari kah, wawasan 2020 kah, Glokal kah, atau apa juga jenis motto, kalau isinya sama juga, WHAT's the DIFFERENCE??
Thursday, March 18
Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations
In the beginning, there was the sexual orientation regulations..
In the 1980s parliament passed legislation that intentionally discriminated against gay and lesbian people, and it is a sign of how much has changed since then that ministers are now putting in place rules that would make such a thing illegal. The sexual orientation regulations, which came into force in Northern Ireland on January 1 2007 and will apply in England and Wales from April 2007, require organizations to treat gay and lesbian people just as they would treat anyone else. Discrimination on the grounds of race, gender or religion is already disallowed, and the change in the law is a sensible recognition of a form of equality which already been accepted by parliament in everything from a single age of consent to civil partnerships.
And then Catholic adoption agency can turn away gay couples..
Roman Catholic bishops have welcomed a high court ruling that will allow a Catholic adoption agency to reject gay couples as parents.
Catholic Care, which serves Leeds, Middlesbrough and Hallam in South Yorkshire, won its appeal for an exemption from sexual orientation regulations that say it must consider applications from gay couples. The agency warned it would abandon its work of finding homes for children, as many others have done, rather than comply with the law.
The bishop of Leeds, the Rt Rev Arthur Roche, insisted there was no homophobic element to the case and claimed that children would have been "seriously disadvantaged" had Catholic Care not won the appeal.
In the 1980s parliament passed legislation that intentionally discriminated against gay and lesbian people, and it is a sign of how much has changed since then that ministers are now putting in place rules that would make such a thing illegal. The sexual orientation regulations, which came into force in Northern Ireland on January 1 2007 and will apply in England and Wales from April 2007, require organizations to treat gay and lesbian people just as they would treat anyone else. Discrimination on the grounds of race, gender or religion is already disallowed, and the change in the law is a sensible recognition of a form of equality which already been accepted by parliament in everything from a single age of consent to civil partnerships.
And then Catholic adoption agency can turn away gay couples..
Roman Catholic bishops have welcomed a high court ruling that will allow a Catholic adoption agency to reject gay couples as parents.
Catholic Care, which serves Leeds, Middlesbrough and Hallam in South Yorkshire, won its appeal for an exemption from sexual orientation regulations that say it must consider applications from gay couples. The agency warned it would abandon its work of finding homes for children, as many others have done, rather than comply with the law.
The bishop of Leeds, the Rt Rev Arthur Roche, insisted there was no homophobic element to the case and claimed that children would have been "seriously disadvantaged" had Catholic Care not won the appeal.
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