Tory supporters of equal marriage are making an eleventh hour plea to fellow Conservative MPs to vote in favour of reform by invoking the record of Margaret Thatcher, who supported the legalisation of homosexuality in the 1960s.
She declares she will henceforth be dedicating all her energy to fighting for the legalisation of marijuana in Alaska.
Another ultra-conservative MP, Nasser al-Shaker – a member of a Salafi party that was then an ally of the Brotherhood – called for legalisation of FGM, and said it had a religious mandate.
But while the Palestinians have stuck to their agreement to postpone pressing their case for statehood at international bodies, Israel has infringed its unannounced de facto moratorium on settlement expansion with recent moves on the retroactive legalisation of four unauthorised outposts and the construction of 300 houses at Beit El.
Both decisions, which mark a major shift in the Church of Scotland's attitudes to gay clergy, come as voters in Ireland prepare for an historic referendum on Friday on the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
First, as indicated, the legalisation of hunting should be the focus, not Bachman.
Such was the deeply unlikely scenario presented to readers of the Sun this week, in a piece headlined "I Took So Much Coke I Wanted Extra Nostrils Says Jim Davidson", the comedian sharing his "cocaine hell" in order to "blast the campaign to legalise drugs": I know, I know, thank God someone's stepped in to put a stop to the imminent legalisation of cocaine.
Geoffrey Vero, chairman of Michael Gove's Surrey Heath association, said the education secretary had told him he feared that teachers could be vulnerable to a legal challenge if they decline to inform students about legalisation of equal marriage if the bill becomes law.
Everything good and not so good that happened had the strong presence of the Catholic church," says Eduardo Jorge, the Green Party presidential candidate who supports the legalisation of abortion.
Since their legalisation in 2005, 26% of all civil partnership ceremonies have taken place in the capital.
Some newspaper reports have ascribed this to the legalisation of the drug in some US states, but local producers say it has more to do with years of falling prices and greater vigilance by the army, which complicates the transport of large shipments.
