Published on
12 December 2012
Posted in Conscience, Culture, Education, Marriage & Family
At present it looks extremely likely that legislation extending the possibility of legal marriage to same-sex couples will be passed in the New Year, and that in spite of strong opposition from voters, churches and even some homosexual people, too. We have blogged before about ‘gay marriage’ here, here, here and here. One aspect of […]
Published on
5 November 2012
Posted in Conscience, Culture, Education, Marriage & Family, Moral Philosophy
School nurses have given [contraceptive] implants or jabs to girls aged between 13 and 16 more than 900 times in the past two years, a survey by The Daily Telegraph has found… A further 7,400 girls aged 15 and under have been given contraceptive injections or implants at family planning clinics… Under the patient confidentiality […]
Published on
13 April 2012
Posted in Culture, Human Rights, Marriage & Family, Same-Sex Marriage
From a guest blogger: During an exchange with a friend earlier this week about the Government’s plans to allow same-sex couples to marry, I objected to his suggestion that support for gay marriage was the province of the political left. After all, the measure has been introduced by a Conservative-led government, enthusiastically supported by the […]
Published on
22 March 2012
From a guest blogger: On 20 February the website of the Coalition 4 Marriage was set up. Since then its petition has obtained, online and on paper, well over quarter of a million signatures (275,928 on 22 March). About four days after that petition was set up another website was set up in opposition: the […]
Published on
29 February 2012
Posted in British Politics, Christianity, Conscience, Marriage & Family, Religion
In August 2011 a cross-party group of MPs and Peers called Christians in Parliament set up an inquiry into the freedom of Christians. Its preliminary report, Clearing the Ground, was published on Monday. The need of such an inquiry was felt due to media reports of Christians feeling that the law was discriminated against them. […]
Published on
20 January 2012
Posted in Conscience, Culture, Human Rights, Liberty, Marriage & Family, Moral Philosophy, Virtue
From a guest blogger: Some right-of-centre blogs have recently caught the eye. They concern chivalry and the unfortunate running aground of the Costa Concordia. ‘Women and children first used always to be the cry when all else was lost’, is the rough line taken by one commentator. At this point one can assume that whatever […]
Published on
11 January 2012
Posted in Human Life, Marriage & Family, Moral Philosophy, Social Commentary
The first working day of the New Year is known by divorce lawyers as ‘Divorce Day’ or ‘D Day’ due to the abnormally high number of people enquiring about a divorce. It is said that the prolonged amount of time that a married couple spend together over Christmas creates a great deal of strain, leading […]
Published on
18 November 2011
Posted in British Politics, Europe, Marriage & Family, Public Policy, Social Commentary
Last week Channel Four television programmed a documentary entitled Go Greek For A Week. Three distinct individuals were shown living as their counterparts in Greece had been doing according to employment and circumstance. The programme focused on the financial generosity of the Greek State, and also on the ease with which taxation might be evaded. […]