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Humane Canada supports stringent regulatory controls over genetic engineering of animals and continues to promote knowledgeable international debate on this issue by government, industry, the animal welfare movement and the public.

That post also links to previous debate on the issue by Appleman and Solove.

Not exact matches

A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

While debate moderators and election commentators focus on economic issues, the religious rhetoric of the presidential candidates appears to go mostly unnoticed - except by the key Republican voting bloc being courted.

The imbroglio reached its apex during the second Republican presidential debate, when Carly Fiorina decried the harvesting of a brain from an intact, extracted fetus whose heart had restarted — described on camera by a former tissue procurement technician — as an issue that defines «the character of our nation.»

This issue was tackled head - on by Paige Patterson and Al Mohler, two Southern Baptist educators, in a public debate at this year's convention.

And then, all the debate is corrupted already from the start by this wrong take on the issue.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

John Cobb, on the other hand, denies that «Whitehead without God» has coherency, at least as presented by Sherburne, and the two Whiteheadians carry out their debate in issues of this journal (PS 1:91 - 113, 2:277 - 95, 3:27 - 40).

Though Calvin and Servetus had debated these issues by letter for many years, they had never met in person, yet when Servetus stopped in Geneva on his way to Italy, he was recognized and arrested.

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

After all, if all these smarter - than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest, what chance does a slim yellow book by a happy - clappy Canadian mama - writer have?

In a debate with an advocate for abortion, one occasionally comes up against an informed opponent who seeks to undermine the Church's position on the issue by pointing out that the Universal Doctor of the Church, St Thomas Aquinas, held to the doctrine of delayed animation or hominisation.

@tallulah13 The Greek gods were made in the image of men by men, some, Hercules for example was a man.The living God made man in His image.You choose, but if you continue to avoid honest debate I'll quit replying to you.There are many examples of proven Bible truths, the Greek b.s you brought up just confuses the real issue and adds nothing to the conversation.You know it, I know it, so does any thinking person.Focus on the topic at hand or go elsewhere.

Harrison also unfolds Augustine's insightful contribution to the science — religion debate, drawing out a number of valuable principles — not least, recommending restraint where issues are not clear, and avoiding bringing Christianity into contempt by arguing for false scientific opinions on the supposed grounds of scriptural warrant.

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

Instead of working to achieve consensus on contested theological and moral issues, legislatively driven agendas are designed to end debates by reducing the issue to two sides and then enacting one side into church policy and ecclesiastical law.

So when we debate an «issue» and forget that it is backed by people — imperfect, wounded, beloved people on both sides — we dehumanize each other.

Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe supported the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank by citing Genesis and calling the debate on the issue «not a political battle at all.

It seems, moreover, on the basis of public opinion polls, that this challenge is already accepted by a majority of our fellow citizens and thus the question of its establishment as a matter of law has not provoked a debate worthy of the momentous issues at stake.

One of the major criticism leveled at Arsenal and Arsene Wenger's transfer policy on Monday night by Gary Neville was the same issue that a vast majority of us fans have been left frustrated by for many years, namely the Defensive Midfield debate.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

When pressed by reporters about the lack of public debate on the issue, Silver fired back, suggesting there has been more pulic debate over the millionaire's tax than ever before.

Laurie Penny pits here finger on a live issue the hierachy and class nature of the way Labour is run.I would add the total lack of internal Labour Party debate Labours record in Govt was apalling Privatisation and privatisation of the NHS backed by Labours ministers as well as War etc mean I do nt consider you a party of the Left.

No doubt, there should be a thorough parliamentary debate on the issue, but instead of forcing a decision in this parliament, which could well be as controversial and divisive as the ill - fated referendum, I strongly agree with Nick Clegg that by far the best and most dignified way out of the current mess would be to ask the people in the proper constitutional way by calling an snap general election:

On the one hand, UKIP's appeal was itself facilitated by the complicity of Conservative and Labour leaders in downplaying the issue in the domestic political debate.

Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming Labour leadership debate (as I have already pointed out on this site) as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates need to answer?).

At the same time, though, diplomacy is getting weaker because of austerity, because of Iraq and Afghanistan, because of a sort of inward - ness in Europe — look at the Brexit debate — and there's a retreat generally from world leadership on lots of issues by the leading power.

The conference «Fuel Poverty: Our Vision for the Future» is supported by National Grid and Northern Powergrid and will focus on six key vision statements exploring the wider issues of fuel poverty including; energy efficiency programmes, fuel poverty and health, the heat or eat debate, hard to treat properties, energy behaviour and a fairer energy market.

Eventually those patents were sold to an affiliate of Liberty Media for a hefty sum, allowing Samuels to use his windfall to run for office, flirt with running for office, and help shape the debate from the left by speaking out on issues and challenging candidates to adopt policies he advocates for.

Two best political books I read this were «Nixonland» by Rich Perlstein (which covers the eclipse of American liberalism and rise of conservatism between 1964 - 1972) and «The Persistence of Poverty» by Charles Karelis, which is short, witty and will change the way that you think about the whole debate around welfare and poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the shops).

Westminster Hall debate on the serious issues raised by «Proving Torture», with a number of MPs on all sides joining our call for torture survivors to get the help they need.

Today's debate will be followed by a free vote, meaning the Tories are not technically being whipped on the issue.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders squared off in a fiery Brooklyn debate sponsored by CNN and Time Warner Cable News, sparring on issues ranging from Wall Street to Israel.

Labour backbenchers on the procedure committee aren't impressed by Hague's unexpected last - minute motion, produced yesterday evening, for a one - hour debate on the issue later today.

At the debate on the issue I attended, most of the panellists and delegates were almost entirely dismissive of the problem of antisemitism, with several suggesting that it didn't even exist in any real way within the movement and others suggesting the whole issue had been fabricated out of thin air by Labour MPs and the right wing press.

There is a good discussion of the wider issues raised by Chris Grayling's responses during that debate by Mark Elliot on the Public Law for Everyone blog.

The People's Forum - Ghana has taken cognisance of the call by HE the President to engage the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Hon Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo in a debate on issues and facts about the economy and we wish to take up the task of making this unprecedented battle of facts a reality.

The presidential hopefuls, Ms Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, former Chairperson of the party and daughter of Ghana's first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, a former General Secretary of the party, Mr Bright Oblitei Akwetey, who has twice contested for the flag - bearer position, and Mr Agyapong, a businessman, were quizzed by the moderator, Prof. Kwame Karikari, on issues on the Ghanaian economy, industrialisation, agriculture and health in the country's first - ever inter-party presidential debate sponsored by TV Africa.

By lumping the Farm Bill into the sequester debate, the news media is denying Americans an understanding, and a debate, on a separate, and equally important, issue.

I based my views on a Telegraph article last year by Greg Rosen, which extracted from the 6 day Commons debate in October 1971, and the nature of sovereignty at stake clearly comes through as a topic of debate, with speeches by Waddington, Enoch Powell, Heath etc, all focused on that issue.

It was always more likely that this measure could face more difficulty in the Lords (given the opposition of some Bishops in the earlier debates, which has been challenged by their colleagues more recently; and the traditionalist right arguments of Tebbit / Waddington on equality issues generally usually have somewhat more support in the Lords than the Commons)

On 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil libertieOn 12 June 2008, Davis resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and announced his resignation as an MP, in order to force a by - election, and cause a wider debate on the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil libertieon the single issue of what he believed to be the erosion of civil liberties.

The three Democrats vying to take on freshman Republican Rep. John Katko in NY - 24 — Colleen Deacon, Steve Williams and Eric Kingson — staked out similar positions on key issues last night in their first televised debate of the campaign hosted by TWC News.

In a video released by his campaign this morning, Astorino accused Cuomo of «playing games» on the debate issue by not agreeing to a one - on - one televised debate.

At a Parliamentary debate on government procurement and manufacturing this week, organised by the Associate Parliamentary Manufacturing Group, a number of issues were identified as barriers to greater use.

Each candidate answered a bevy of questions on issues pertinent to District 19, which covers Bayside, Little Neck, Douglaston, College Point, East Flushing, Malba and Whitestone, during the debate hosted Friday by TimesLedger at Flushing Library.

Shadow education secretary Andy Burnham insisted it was «a huge change in tone» following a debate on the issue in Parliament on Tuesday evening, in which the plans were repeatedly attacked by Labour MPs.

The Prime Minister has called the blacklisting of workers by large construction firms «completely unacceptable» ahead of a Labour Opposition Day debate on the issue.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this debates this autumn.