The Westminster Abbey Institute

Christian Faith and Public Policy: Faith, Gender and Equality

24th April 2012 at 6:15 pm

Exploring issues of faith and public policy. This second lecture looked at the highly contentious area of approaches to gender, sexuality and equality and the attitudes of faith communities to issues of this sort and whether any specific attention should be paid to them.

Raymond Plant is a Labour Peer and Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College London. Lord Plant sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. He has written extensively on political, social, and legal philosophy, dealing with such issues as  human rights and community. He is a Fellow of St Catherine's College Oxford, and Harris Manchester College Oxford.

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