Word for the Week

Right to say 'No'

Week beginning: 26th April, 2015 | By Peter Brown | Ballymena

'Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than human beings! The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Saviour that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins. We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."'

Acts 5:29-32 (NIV)

The most recent LCF/CMF half day conference was entitled "The Right to say "No"!", and was originally mooted as a natural successor to our previous event on assisted dying in the context of the conscience clause in the 1967 Abortion Act. The day subs