Christian Concern For Our Nation

Christian Concern For Our Nation is a group of Christian lawyers in the UK dedicated to protecting freedom for Christians in their country. The group was formed in 2004 to lobby members of Parliament.

The group is a bit controversial.

I have nothing against concern for our nation. And, of course, I have nothing against Christian. But when you put them together as Christian Concern for Our Nation, I start to wonder if maybe they're going to start telling us how we should act and what we should believe and who or what we should have sex with and when.

And I don't like that. I think reasonable people should be able to do what they want.


Concern.
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Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women

Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women campaigned for higher education for women in Scotland until 1892, when Scottish universities started admitting women. It is also the longest Wikibloogia title to date.

I always admire people, or groups of people, who fight for rights. I'm glad I have them. My rights. I think about it fairly often. Rights are weird. It's a bit unclear where they come from. I guess in the United States they come from that piece of paper those guys wrote on with quill pens. Which is great. Those guys seemed smart and noble. On the other hand, each of those guys was once a baby. We base our entire society on the decisions of a few grown-up babies.

Rights are slow-coming for so many groups of people. It always takes so many decades for the majority to acknowledge that a certain group has a certain right, and then those certain rights are granted to that certain group, and then it's on to the next long battle for the next rights. Why does it have to take so long? Can't we just skip to the end?


The Founding Fathers quickly realized they'd have to write smaller to fit it.
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