Canvassers
It’s County Council Election time in the the UK folks! Me : What is your candidate’s view on same sex marriage? Canvasser : We believe any two people who love each other should be able to marry M: So you …
Month: April 2013
Predictably Irrational?
Andrew Goddard has a stonking piece out on Fulcrum on “Men and Women”. There has been little or no new serious theological reasoning advanced as to why the original view of the bishops about civil partnerships was wrong. Without that being offered, there …
Guns Don’t Kill People, Statisticians Do
Last week the US Senate failed to enact the proposed gun reform laws that Obama and others were pressing to get through Congress. The response to this from some in the United States was of horror and disbelief, but sometimes …
Jersey – New Allegations
This morning the Revd Dr Gavin Ashenden went on BBC Jersey to claim that the original Independent Review on Safeguarding in the Bob Key affair missed vital information which may have affected the outcome of the report. Specifically it was …
Men and Women in Marriage
There has been much fuss over the past week or so to do with the publication by the Church of England Faith and Order Committee (FaOC) of their report “Men and Women in Marriage“. I want to briefly explore two …
Fast-track to Polygamy?
Here’s an interesting idea. Wait until you see who wrote it. So there’s one aspect of the pro-gay-marriage brief that deserves a mental asterisk. A second argument that has always been a bit weak has been the attempt to minimise …