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Should Gay Couples Wed in Church?
It is reported that later this week the government will announce a consultation process on plans to end a ban on civil partnership ceremonies being held in places of worship, to extend civil unions to heterosexual partnerships, and to legalise same-sex marriage. These are three separate issues. The first...
John Hayward Posted: 15 February 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
Social Recovery and Broken Britain
The Big Society is the Conservatives’ practical solution in power to their analysis in opposition of what was wrong with the country, as articulated in the Breakdown Britain report that described ‘Broken Britain’ in terms of five interlocking ‘pathways to poverty’: family...
John Hayward Posted: 14 February 2011 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
The Joy of Teen Sex: The Facts
For the last four weeks, Channel 4 has been broadcasting its latest supposedly educational series on sex. Each of the four episodes began with the claim that the average teenager has had three sexual partners by the time they reach 16. The real facts about teen sex include: Less than one-in-three men...
John Hayward Posted: 11 February 2011 No comments
Keywords: Health, Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Marriage Week
One of Jubilee Centre's researchers is at the launch of Marriage Week today in the House of Commons, where the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is defending the idea of state support for marriage and criticising the political establishment for not defending marriage. LBC's Petrie Hosken...
John Hayward Posted: 8 February 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Sexting: Exposed
I recently mentioned a local teenage girl who has attempted to commit suicide three times as a direct consequence of feeling humiliated after a former boyfriend made public a 'revealing' photo that she had given to him. Figures published by the charity Beatbullying last August revealed that almost two...
John Hayward Posted: 8 February 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Science & Technology, Sex & Families,
Cameron: State Multiculturalism Has Failed
Ten years after Jubilee Centre warned against the assumption that 'inter-religious co-operation is desirable in the same way as racial integration' and opposed the suggestion that Britain should formally be declared ‘multicultural' on the basis that multiculturalist policies 'are not always the...
John Hayward Posted: 5 February 2011 No comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
New Legal Rights for Unmarried Couples
I was interviewed earlier by LBC on Nick Ferrari's breakfast show about the call from Britain’s most senior family judge for cohabiting couples who split up to get new legal rights to share property and money. Sir Nicholas Wall insists that any legal changes would not undermine the institution...
John Hayward Posted: 3 February 2011 No comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Sex & Families,
Children's Screen Habits
Next Monday, the Minister for Culture, Ed Vaizey is meeting with British Internet Service Providers to discuss how the industry can better support parents and help them ensure that their children cannot access pornography. One proposal, suggested by the MP Claire Perry in her Adjournment Debate, is an...
John Hayward Posted: 2 February 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, Sex & Families,
English Law to catch up with Biblical Law?
After quite a long wait (pallets first stuck at docks, next mistakenly sent to Coventry, then delivery down the narrow streets of Cambridge attempted by a 44-tonne truck!), you will probably have seen that we have taken delivery of Jonathan Burnside’s latest and excellent book: God, Justice and...
Alan White Posted: 26 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice,
The Future of Food and Farming
A new government report today warns (again) that the world is going to need 40 per cent more food, 30 per cent more water and 50 per cent more energy by the middle of the century. In 'The Future of Food and Farming' Sir John Beddington, the government's chief scientist, says that every means to improve...
John Hayward Posted: 24 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, The Environment,
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Now that the world is driven wild by gaining wealth without God, this handbook will help even African...
Bob Simpson on 26 Mar 2013
Yes Harry, we are. But we seem to be talking about it in a context that is thousands of years apart,...