A new BBC poll claiming that warnings about the breakdown of family life in Britain are unfounded has been attacked by the Centre for Social Justice which is headed by Tory Minister, Iain Duncan Smith. The BBC poll shows that 97 per cent of people say they are happy with their family life. However, two-thirds...
A clear majority of Americans continue to believe that religious symbols like Christmas Nativity scenes should be allowed on public land. US polling company, Rasmussen Reports, asked, “Should religious symbols like Christmas Nativity scenes, Hanukkah Menorahs and Muslim Crescents be allowed on public land”. Seventy four per cent said yes, while only 17 per cent...
Faith schools continue to top the British schools charts, new UK Department of Education league tables published today show. Official rankings showed almost two-thirds of primaries with the top results were Anglican, Roman Catholic or Jewish schools, despite making up just a third of schools nationally. Secular groups claimed that such schools gained the best...
EU member-states could be forced to recognise same-sex marriages contracted in other member-states if a controversial proposal in a new European Commission green paper is made law. The paper, ‘Less bureaucracy for citizens: promoting free movement of public documents and recognition of the effects of civil status records’, says its aim is to ‘remove bureaucratic...
A booking made by a homosexual couple suing the Christian owners of a seaside hotel in the UK for ‘discrimination’ may have been a ”set-up”, according to evidence heard by a court yesterday. Martyn Hall and his civil partner Steven Preddy are alleging “sexual orientation discrimination” against the owners of the hotel, Peter and Hazelmary...
A major new report into the increasing levels of discrimination faced by Christians in Europe has been launched in Vienna. The report, produced by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe highlights the growing trend towards marginalising Christians from the public square. The paper, Shadow Report on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians...
The number of Irish women engaged in home duties stood at more than half a million in the third quarter of this year, according to the CSO. Of these, less than 10 percent were seeking employment indicating that the vast majority of such women were doing home duties voluntarily. Despite this, Budget 2011 hit one-income...
A groundbreaking new study of 289 pairs of male twins shows that it is marriage itself, combined with pre-existing personality traits, which explains why married men are less likely to engage in anti-social behaviour than single men. The findings of the study are likely to help answer a question asked by researchers over a number...
A major ruling by the UK High Court gives childless couples the right to pay fees as a well as expenses to surrogate mothers to have babies for them. The ruling, by a senior family court judge, allowed a British couple to keep a newborn child even though they had technically broken the law by...
The Irish Times wants GPs to be allowed to prescribe the Pill to minors without their parents’ consent. In an editorial today, the paper endorsed controversial proposals made by the Law Reform Commission (LRC) last December which would allow minors aged 14 to 16 to be prescribed the Pill without parental consent. An opinion poll...
