A major campaign against proposals to allow same-sex marriage the United Kingdom has been launched. The Coalition for Marriage (C4M) is a group of organisations and individuals who support the current definition of marriage and opposes any plans to redefine it. Among its supporters are the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, and Lord Brennan,...
A leading academic has warned that the wording on children’s rights proposed by the Oireachtas committee chaired by Mary O’Rourke cannot “provide any meaningful guidance to State agencies” as to when the State should intervene in families to protect vulnerable children and has produced an alternative wording. Writing in today’s Irish Times, Dr Oran Doyle,...
More than 2,500 Protestant leaders have signed a letter opposing the Obama Administration’s controversial mandate forcing religious institutions to cover abortifacients, sterilisations and contraception in their insurance plans. The letter, published by the Family Research Council (FRC), a pro-family, pro-religion think tank calls the mandate “a severe blow to our religious liberty” and accuses the...
Britian’s equality watchdog, Trevor Philips (pictured) has been condemned by religious leaders and legal experts after he compared Christians who oppose aspects of equality legislation with Muslims trying to impose sharia law on Britain. Mr Philips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said that religious rules should end “at the door of the...
Conservative MPs said that the delay by the Chancellor was “kowtowing” to the Liberal Democrats and represented a “failure of leadership” by David Cameron, the Prime Minister. A pledge to support marriage in the tax system features in the Coalition agreement and is a key demand of the Tory faithful, but it has been strongly...
Two groups have provided €1.5 million to a new organisation called Campaign for Children which is set to be a leading voice in campaigning for a Yes vote in the Government’s “children’s rights” referendum. Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald yesterday promised that the Coalition would hold a stand-alone referendum on the issue later this year....
The Virginia state Senate has passed legislation allowing private adoption agencies to deny placements that conflict with their religious or moral beliefs. The House of Delegates has an identical version of the bill and Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell says he will sign it. Virginia would become just the second US state with such a law,...
Roughly £100 billion is spent each year in the UK dealing with problems relating to sexual promiscuity and relationship breakdown, according to research by the Jubilee Centre. Author Guy Brandon attacked society’s uncritical endorsement of sexual freedom which he argues has resulted in massive public costs. The costs include dealing with family breakdown, sexually transmitted...
The Government has no plans to introduce legislation to allow for the adoption of children by same-sex couples, the two relevant Fine Gael ministers have said. Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald (pictured) said she had no legislative proposals in the area, while Minister for Justice Alan Shatter referred a query from a Labour backbencher to...
UK Government minister, Eric Pickles, has vowed to overturn a judge’s ban on formal council prayers – within a week if possible. The backlash follows a High Court ruling last Friday in a case brought by the National Secular Society against a small Devonshire town council. The case led a judge to rule that local...
