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...being synonymous with Jesus' attitude. I think their attitude toward the gay community - love the sinner, hate the sin - is very disingenuous because what it's like in practice is that they are both repulsed and amused by gay people. To me it's less important that they come up with a more palatable way of expressing their homophobia than that they get over their homophobia. Their prejudice needs confrontation...
...side for years and people feel these income gaps," says the PM's spokesman Panitan. "We may not see confrontations like in Latin America but, if not managed, this could be a big problem in Thailand, and demonstrations will be the order of the day for years to come...
...most dramatic cuts have come in Eastern Europe, particularly in Latvia, where the government has cut public funding for higher education in half since 2008. Poland, Hungary and Estonia have all cut or plan to make cuts of between 4% and 7%. But it's not just the east - wealthier European nations are also feeling the bite. This month, Britain announced cuts as high as 14% to some university budgets, while both Italian and Spanish schools face reductions of about 10%. The situation is so bad in Spain that schools extended holiday breaks last year to save money on heating...
...over the next several years could produce a wholly different picture of education in the future. "The crisis is not over. We will need to wait some time to see what's really going to happen in some countries," Estermann says. "Even those who do not cut now will come under pressure in the future...
...bill's chief sponsor, Daniel Bacquelaine of the liberal Reformist Movement party, admits that cultural considerations have also come into play. "In an open society, we need common values and we need equal rights and duties," he says. Bacquelaine estimates the burqa is worn by only a few hundred of Belgium's 630,000-strong Muslim population, but the numbers have been rising in the past decade. "It has become a political weapon," he says. "There is nothing in Islam or the Koran about the burqa. It has become an instrument of intimidation, and is a sign of submission...