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
Sunday Study: The Bible and Rape – A Response to Michael Martin
September 27th, 2009 3 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
Sunday Study: Does the Bible Teach that a Rape Victim has to Marry her Rapist?
July 5th, 2009 36 Comments
In our recent discussion on the Bible’s teachings on slavery John Loftus asked Madeleine, “if you were raped you should marry your rapist? Get real. … Would you want to be treated the way the Bible says women and slaves should be treated?” Loftus then dedicated a post on Debunking Christianity to Madeleine’s “stupidity” for [...]
Tags: John Loftus · Michael Martin · Sexual Morality · Sunday Study · Theology
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
Damian Peterson on Sexual Morality
November 21st, 2007 7 Comments
In a recent post I took a swipe at an argument often used to justify current sex education policies. In the comments section Damian Peterson advanced the debate further than this specific argument. I think he raises some issues worth clarifying so I will respond to them here. Damian’s comments in full are,
OK, I see. [...]
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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
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