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I’d been tied up with students all morning. No sooner did student number ten leave than student number eleven appeared. It was Theresa. “Hi, Professor T. This isn’t about your course. Have you [...]

No doubt you’ve heard friends—even Christian friends—and you hear them say, “Well, why shouldn’t gays be able to marry like anyone else? What will it hurt? It won’t affect marriage, and it will [...]

The Open Marriage, by Nena and George O’Neill, was published in 1972, as the sexual revolution gathered steam in America. The best-selling book encouraged spouses to “to strip marriage of its [...]

Australians have been repeatedly reminded over many months by a sympathetic media of a national enquiry commissioned by the Federal Parliament to gauge support for same-sex “marriage”.But [...]

Several years ago, Tim Costello, “the most public face of Christian social justice in the country”,1 neatly summed up the way in which social justice advocates view themselves and their [...]

Shortly after the election of Julia Gillard to the position of Prime Minster and the establishment of a Labor/Greens government, fearing that we could lose the battle to protect marriage, I [...]

France’s Constitutional Council, its highest court for constitution issues, ruled on Friday (28 January 2011) that the country’s definition of marriage as between one man and one woman is valid [...]

Many homosexuals – perhaps most – are not even interested in marriage. Thus it must be asked, just why is it that some homosexuals are so insistent on marriage rights? Why the very strong push by [...]

The Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC, Leader of the Christian Democratic Party, has issued a scathing attack on fellow Members of Parliament in the wake of the review into DOCS by the NSW Auditor-General. [...]

There are a couple of terms I need to stop using in my columns. One of those terms is “liberal” – most of the self-described liberals I write about in my columns are not tolerant enough to [...]