Salisbury Diocese in the Church of England has had a bit of a rough go of it lately. Everything was bubbling along nicely until the outspoken Vicar of St Martin in the Fields, Nicholas Holtam, got made diocesan bishop in 2011. It didn’t take long for Holtam to stick his oar into the quagmire of gay [...]
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The Briefing have published an article which is a reworking of a few pieces I penned a while ago, “Our Messy Individualism“. Here’s a short excerpt of some of the reasoning part-way through, I suspect, therefore, there’s a more basic common motivation that influences the push towards both abortion and gay adoption—that of the increasing perception of [...]
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A useful editorial from The Australian (my emphasis), AMONG its “reasons why marriage equality matters”, the Australian Marriage Equality lobby group lists “growing support in Australia and around the world” – an argument that implies public opinion deserves to be respected. But, unfortunately, the group showed scant respect for the democratic process when it slammed Immigration [...]
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Can you guess what the vote might be over? Of course you can! The New Zealand Herald has the story: Proposals being considered by the Anglican Church could see gay marriage services carried out in churches by gay priests. Bishops and priests are to vote on proposals covering the blessing of same-sex civil unions, the [...]
View PostThe following video ran at the end of the Australian Christian Lobby’s recent webcast, “Defining Marriage“. I missed the broadcast, being on a plane, but hope to get some viewing in over the next few days. Here’s the “Marriage Act” video. The Marriage Act from whatismarriage on Vimeo. Clever. I think I’d want to focus [...]
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Finally we’ve got a study on this topic that begins to provide meaningful results. Science Direct have the text of “How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study” (pdf here). Here’s the abstract: The New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is a social-science data-collection project that [...]
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From 22:30 I talk with Kevin about Gay Marriage inside the church and out, in Australia and the UK.
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Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, has made a public intervention in the national debate over “Gay Marriage”. Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, he sets out his opposition: We are in the midst of a sustained and brilliantly orchestrated campaign to radically alter the marriage laws of this country to allow same-sex marriage. Three [...]
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My wife and I watched the excellent Iron Lady last week. About halfway through there is a telling moment when Thatcher goes to see her doctor. He asks her how are you feeling? One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do [...]
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This is going to be a bit of a ramble. Grab a cup of something and sit down with me… I’ve been working through the latest government adoption report [pdf] in Australia, prompted by my previous post and I came across this chilling sentence (chapter 4, p.34): Broader social trends, such as declining fertility rates, the wider [...]
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