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Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Paul Goodman: ...: "The Bill creates competing rights with no indication of how problems should be resolved." I assume this is a reference to the competing claims of the so-called faith lobby and the so-called gay lobby. Does the right hon. Lady believe that the bishops conference has a point, and if so, how can these tensions be resolved?

Business of the House: Holocaust Memorial Day (29 Jan 2009) has video

Paul Goodman: ...debate to say, "Never again." As the Minister said, the Jewish people were not the only victims of the holocaust. There were also Poles, disabled people, political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, gay people and many others. Nor, as has been pointed out from the Conservative Benches, was the holocaust the only exercise in mass murder. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's website refers to...

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Counter-Terror Strategy (25 Jun 2008)

Paul Goodman: ...a broad coalition against extremism per se, on the ground that extremism is the root from which violent extremism grows. According to this view, British National party hatred of black, Asian and gay people today becomes the attack on the "Admiral Duncan" pub tomorrow. Similarly, detestation of the kuffar, or non-Muslim, today—a view that is fired by a narrow, exclusivist, hate-filled...

Business of the House: Topical debate — Holocaust Memorial Day (31 Jan 2008)

Paul Goodman: ...and to explain why this debate is so topical. The Minister was quite right to intimate that the Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust; there were other groups such as Gypsies and, indeed, gay people. Crimes against humanity have taken place recently and are taking place elsewhere—in Rwanda, Darfur and Kosovo, for example. I understand from what the Minister said that those...

Integration and Cohesion (17 Apr 2007)

Paul Goodman: ...and cohesion in relation to Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain turns out to be part of a wider discussion about the future of faith communities, which the recent debates about faith schools and gay adoption have touched on, and indeed about relations between us all. I look forward to hearing from my hon. Friends and to the Minister's reply.

Public Bill Committee: Local Government Bill: New Clause 1 - Repeal of prohibition on promotion of homosexuality (13 Feb 2003)

Mr Paul Goodman: ...one hand section 28 is completely redundant, as it has been superseded by legislation, but on the other hand that it still has an effect because of the incident that she quoted as an example of the gay artist and the painting. Will she clear up that point?