LONDON, October 31, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division of the British
court system has said that only “secular” judges can serve a
“multicultural” society, and that judges must not “be swayed by
Christian values.”
“A secular judge must be wary of straying across the well-recognized divide between church and state,” Munby said in a speech to the first annual conference of the Law Society’s family law section in London.
In a speech in London last night, Munby disparaged “Victorian judges” who promoted ‘virtue and morality.” Such judges discouraged “vice and immorality” while maintaining a “very narrow view of sexual morality.”
“Happily for us, the days are past when the business of judges was the enforcement of morals or religious beliefs,” he said.
He praised the “disappearance, in an increasingly secular and pluralistic society, of what until comparatively recently was in large measure a commonly accepted package of moral, ethical and religious values.”
Munby said modern judges had in a sense displaced Christian clergy, whom, he said, have relinquished their prior position as the “defining voices of morality and of the law of marriage and the family.”
Anthony Ozimic, communications manager of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), told LifeSiteNews that this is not the first time Munby has “used his position to give succour to the idea that the move away from Judeo-Christian morality represents progress.”
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I believe the UK judge has got it all wrong and that is why I agree with Ravi Zacharias who said:
In defining what is good in a culture, humanists and atheists cannot provide a rational argument for what is exemplified by the idea of being good, instead they can provide only a pragmatic argument, which is insufficient. El Greco
“A secular judge must be wary of straying across the well-recognized divide between church and state,” Munby said in a speech to the first annual conference of the Law Society’s family law section in London.
In a speech in London last night, Munby disparaged “Victorian judges” who promoted ‘virtue and morality.” Such judges discouraged “vice and immorality” while maintaining a “very narrow view of sexual morality.”
“Happily for us, the days are past when the business of judges was the enforcement of morals or religious beliefs,” he said.
He praised the “disappearance, in an increasingly secular and pluralistic society, of what until comparatively recently was in large measure a commonly accepted package of moral, ethical and religious values.”
Munby said modern judges had in a sense displaced Christian clergy, whom, he said, have relinquished their prior position as the “defining voices of morality and of the law of marriage and the family.”
Anthony Ozimic, communications manager of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), told LifeSiteNews that this is not the first time Munby has “used his position to give succour to the idea that the move away from Judeo-Christian morality represents progress.”
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I believe the UK judge has got it all wrong and that is why I agree with Ravi Zacharias who said:
In defining what is good in a culture, humanists and atheists cannot provide a rational argument for what is exemplified by the idea of being good, instead they can provide only a pragmatic argument, which is insufficient. El Greco
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