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Should Kent's shops be open all day on Sundays?

Should Kent's shops be open all day on Sundays? The chancellor says Sunday trading laws should be relaxed over the summer.

Should Kent's shops be open all day on Sundays? The chancellor says Sunday trading laws should be relaxed over the summer.

He is worried that when the world and his wife are here for the Oympics and Paralympics, we will look like we are closed for business. Is he right?

What did you do yesterday? Enjoy a spot of shopping? Or avoided town centres like the plague? Maybe you work in a shop - do you do Sunday shifts, does it spoil your weekend, your time with the family?

The campaign Keep Sunday Special says the temporary suspension of Sunday trading laws is "profoundly worrying". And shopworkers' union Usdaw says its members are massively opposed to the idea.

Some Church leaders have also spoken out, one Church of England vicar told the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ "Sunday should be a time for relationships, a time when we put some boundaries on consumerism, so you can go to the park and play football with the kids, and take your mum breakfast in bed."

The Tory MP Nadine Dorries asks whether the coalition government is secretly imposing an anti-Christian agenda.

Is this a religious debate or one about our social and family lives?

Should gay men and women be allowed to get married?

We speak to a Christian who is in a gay partnership who would liked to be married. Would you let them?

The government's currently consulting on a change in the definition of marriage that would allow same-sex weddings. But opposition is mounting - the Coalition For Marriage has an online petition opposing gay marriage. Nearly 250,000 people have signed up already.

We hear your views and stories.

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