On Wednesday I flew to Christchurch for an interview regarding a religious education (RE) teaching position in a Catholic School. On having the interview and receiving the subsequent rejection email, it was clear what the reason I did not get the position was: I am a protestant, the school has a particular Catholic ethos [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sexual Morality'
Rangiora New Life College, Religion and Discrimination
December 13th, 2009 13 Comments
Tags: Campbell Live · Dave Crampton · Education · Idiot/Savant · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Ollie Sterrit · Rangiora New Life School · Religion and Public Life · Sara Etherington · Sexual Morality · Teenage Pregnancy
Of Papers, Jobs, Weddings and TV Shows
November 19th, 2009 2 Comments
We have had, and are in for, an interesting few weeks.
Last week I finished my studies for 2009 with my Legal Ethics exam and enrolled to complete the final two papers of my LLB (bachelor of law) in 2010. This week Matt handed in his final piece of assessment for his post graduate diploma in [...]
Tags: Abortion · Filia Day · Law Studies · Teaching Diploma · TV Shows
Sunday Study: The Bible and Rape – A Response to Michael Martin
September 27th, 2009 5 Comments
A little while ago I wrote a post criticising Michael Martin’s contention that the Bible commands a rape victim to marry her rapist, Does the Bible Teach that a Rape Victim has to Marry her Rapist? To summarise briefly, Martin cited Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and interpreted it as,
Here the victim of rape is as treated the [...]
Tags: Bible · Ethics · Hermeneutics · Michael Martin · Rape · Sexual Morality · Sunday Stu · Sunday Study · Theology
Homosexuality and the Right-Wing Socialists
November 18th, 2008 27 Comments
Lately I have been thinking I must write a post about the sacred cow of homosexuality and how it can turn the most ardent liberal into a lefty. I am not the only person to have noticed this phenomena.
As Matt once commented, “Christians should be very concerned with people who will sell out their commitment [...]
Tags: Cactus Kate · Glenn Peoples · Grant Robertson · Homosexual Conduct · Stephen Franks
Caller of the Week – Sexual Preference on Census Form
August 18th, 2008 2 Comments
When I was at work last week one of my colleagues said he thought he had heard me on the radio one Friday afternoon but he wasn’t sure if it was me. I had phoned into Newstalk ZB during the last week of the school holidays but it wasn’t a Friday, so we sort of [...]
Tags: Kinsey · Sexual Morality · Talkback
Praise from our Critics
June 20th, 2008 3 Comments
Despite holding to a somewhat contrary viewpoint and despite having had more than one clash of viewpoints it appears that our critics accord us some praise. I just now stumbled accross this thread on GayNZ.com’s forum discussing Christian blogs and websites and was pleasantly surprised by the comments on our blog.
Kay writes: “The M & [...]
Tags: Abortion · Feticide · GayNZ.com · Homosexual Conduct · Sexual Morality
Spot the Difference
October 25th, 2007 5 Comments
A few weeks ago wide publicity was given to a study that concluded that NZ women are the most promiscuous in the world. (The fact that, this study had some serious scientific shortcomings having neither a control group nor a random sample group was not so widely publicised.)
What was interesting was the reaction by some [...]
Tags: Sexual Morality
Jim Flynn’s suggestion: Contraception and Religious Freedom
July 12th, 2007 3 Comments
When I was teaching the history of early modern philosophy at Otago last year, one of my students told me I reminded them of Dr Jim Flynn. This was supposed to be a compliment. Flynn was highly regarded at Otago even those who considered themselves conservatives had good things to say about Flynn. I knew [...]
Tags: Contraception · Ethics · Eugenics · Freedom of Religion
John Key on Religion and Public Life
September 30th, 2008 20 Comments
A few weeks ago someone gave me a copy of this interview with John Key. Now the first thing to note is that the article was published by Gaynz.com. Gaynz.com are not a terribly reliable media outlet, and Madeleine would say that they are beneath the term “media outlet”. Hence, much of what is written [...]
Tags: GayNZ.com · Homosexual Conduct · John Key · National Party · Religion and Public Life · Sexual Morality