Currently I am reading ‘Broken Promises: How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World’ and it is a truly devastating expose of the AIDS industry in Africa. In particular, it indicts the industry for doing its utmost to ignore, or deny, or actively undermine and condemn efforts to persuade at-risk Africans to moderate their...
In the West we are doing our best to destroy our Christian heritage but in China, Chinese intellectuals are coming around to the view that it is precisely this heritage that has made the West so successful. Former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Dominic Lawson, in a review in the Sunday Times of Niall Ferguson’s...
The High Court in Britain has effectively ruled that no-one who believes in traditional sexual morality can foster children. Adoption can’t be too far behind. This is the latest in a series of rulings intent on driving belief in traditional sexual morality underground. Observant Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Orthodox Jews etc all believe in traditional...
Atheist Ireland sent a range of policy questions to political parties and individual candidates. Amongst the questions they asked were whether parties or candidates would support a referendum to remove religious references from the Constitution, whether they would support legislation to prevent hospitals from having a religious ethos and whether churches should pay taxes. They...
A new poll in The Irish Independent today shows a clear majority of the public are in favour of same-sex marriage. Sixty-one percent say they back ‘State recognition of same-sex marriages’, with 27 percent opposed. However, this support is likely to be very soft and would change rapidly in a referendum campaign. For the last...
The other day Eamon Gilmore was asked point-blank by a voter whether Ireland is ready for an atheist Taoiseach. His answer, in summary, was that religion is a private matter. Later in the day, Pat Rabbitte said it isn’t a politician’s religion that matters so much as his or her values. I agree. But the...
The Guardian website is the not the first place you would expect to see an acknowledgement of the uniqueness of traditional marriage. In fact, it’s probably one of the last places you’d look. But this blog by Guardian political writer Michael White makes exactly that point. To be sure, there are a lot of contentious...
Incredibly, and without any debate whatever, a new brand of the Morning-After-Pill, or ‘Emergency Birth Control’, has been made available in Irish pharmacies without prescription. The ordinary, everyday contraceptive Pill is available only on prescription and cannot be given to minors without parental permission or consent. How this can be squared with making the MAP...
With the general election campaign in full swing, voters for whom marriage, religious education and freedom of religion are important issues need to inform themselves on these issues. Here is where the three main parties stand. Fine Gael Marriage and Family: Fine Gael says in its manifesto that “it recognises the value of the family...
A couple of weeks ago France’s equivalent of the Supreme Court found that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage did not violate the French Constitution. Vitally, it found that the principle of equality wasn’t breached because the State is entitled to treat different situations in different ways. This is an absolutely crucial point. Everyone believes...
