I can reveal that Dr Jeffrey John, the openly gay but celibate Dean of St Albans, has been blocked from becoming a bishop once again. He has not been chosen as the next Bishop of Southwark. Liberals will be dismayed that the Church has lost its nerve – but there is no reason for evangelicals [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in England, Funnies, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Society
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Tagged Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury, Catholic Church, church of england, crown nominations commission, gay and lesbian, gay priests, Jeffrey johns, jonathan wynne-jones, pope benedict, rowan williams
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Well, if it isn’t an atheist bunfight, it’s a libertarian bunfight. Last week — in an excellent piece for Reason Magazine — David Boaz argued that libertarians ought to stop looking backwards for some ‘golden age of lost liberty’, because no such age has ever existed. More to the point, no such age ever will [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Feminism, History, Law, Personal liberty
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Tagged coverture, David Boaz, Golden Age of Liberty, group rights, individual rights, Libertarianism, Reason Magazine, slavery, Will Wilkinson
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I’m reasonably sure I was the first libertarian to suggest that organising libertarians was akin to herding cats (here, apparently), and since then the notion has spread around Ozblogistan. Well, I think I’ve found a new group of cats that will not be herded: atheists. This observation comes after noting the response to a piece [...]
February 15, 2010 – 6:30 am
This story has been something of a slow burn over here, but it’s starting to gain a bit of momentum now, to the stage where the implications are actually pretty awful: A SENIOR official at Amnesty International has accused the charity of putting the human rights of Al-Qaeda terror suspects above those of their victims. [...]
February 3, 2010 – 9:01 pm
A friend alerted to me to an interesting case reported in the New York Times involving monetary restitution to a victim of child pornography who goes by the pseudonym “Amy”. When she was 8 or 9 years old, Amy’s uncle had filmed her in a series of pornographic photographs known as the “Misty” series. Amy [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Equity, Law, Restitution, Society, anthony daniels
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Tagged aims of criminal law, child abuse, child endangerment, criminal law, Restitution, restitution for wrongs, rights of the child
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February 1, 2010 – 9:14 am
Long-time readers of this blog will know I’m fascinated by animals and the law. A while back I wrote a post on the topic of pets who are recipients of bequests, and discussed the possibility of a rich animal being better represented before the law than a poor human being. The dog in that post [...]
January 21, 2010 – 8:36 pm
Via a friend, I came across this interesting piece on political correctness on US university campuses. The author starts out with a salutary tale: In 2007 a student working his way through college was found guilty of racial harassment for reading a book in public. Some of his co-workers had been offended by the book’s [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Australian internet filter, Education, Free Speech, Literature, Personal liberty, Politics, Society
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Tagged Free Speech, manners, political correctness, regulation, respect agenda, respect ambassadors, universities
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January 19, 2010 – 9:07 pm
[Update: now cross posted at Online Opinion - 22/1/10] One of the things that I’m thinking about in my PhD is the limits of law. What can law change? And more importantly, what can’t it change? Who enforces the law? Can we change the way in which people behave by regulating them more? Via CoreEconomics, [...]
January 17, 2010 – 1:03 am
I have never seen this film, and I’m not sure I want to see it either, as it seems to consist of humour that makes you excruciatingly uncomfortable at the same time as being funny. Of course the premise is unbelievable: it is economically impossible for a state with significant chattel slavery ever to develop [...]
December 15, 2009 – 8:40 pm
Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports: The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Blogging, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged freedom of speech, ISP filtering, Senator Conroy
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