I honestly don’t set out each day to find something to have a whinge about. I’d much rather be posting up great positive stuff about the gospel, copies of sermons on my podcast, even the occassional funny. I really don’t go out of my way to find things that annoy me. But I find myself […]
Gay Marriage “Watershed Moment” – Feelings or Thoughts?

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 […]
Adoption, Abortion and “Gay Marriage” – joining the dots with Jesus

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 […]
The “Necessity” for Same-Sex Adoptive Couples – getting some facts straight

Perhaps, like me, you’ve heard the argument that same-sex couples ought to be allowed to adopt children since there is a need. No child, it is argued, ought to be denied the right to loving parents. Implicit in this is the assumption that, somehow, there is a lack of loving heterosexual adoptive parents. Given the […]
The “Right” to Homosexual Adoption
This will stir things up. Here's the thought today – I don't understand the logic of homosexual couples demanding the right to adopt. It strikes me as utterly undermining their other argument that the essential nature of their relationship is, well, natural and normal. Here's the logic: Assumption conceded for the sake of the argument: Homosexual attraction […]