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by Nigel Leaney

Throughout history and across the world people have lived, and been willing to die, for their beliefs. Our belief systems form our values and our self-identity - what it is to be me. They are precious. Not many of us would like to be told that our view of the world is fundamentally wrong. So to treat people's beliefs as a symptom of an illness - delusions - to be eradicated by medication can cause a loss of self-esteem and disempowerment.

by Allan Norman

The Archbishop of Canterbury is, as his more generous critics have acknowledged, a thoughtful and intelligent man, whose views deserve mature reflection, and I would encourage anyone inclined to wade in with fists flying to actually listen to what he said about his speech last week first. But Rowan Williams, as the head of the only part of the Christian church with authority to pass measures that are part of English law, may not be best placed to argue dispassionately against undue accommodation between religion and secular law.