Fed up with bankrupt political correctness

On 15 September 2009, John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, said this in The Daily Mail:

“I am fed up to the back teeth with the bankrupt political correctness which refuses to recognise the distinctive impact made on this country by the Church of England and other churches.

More people do unpaid work for church groups than any other organisation, with churchgoers contributing 23.2 million hours of voluntary service each month in their local communities outside the church. The Church of England alone provides activities outside church worship in the local community for more than half-a-million under-16-year-olds, employing more youth workers than any other organisation…

In March this year it was revealed that the Department for Local Government and Communities has given £25,000 to the British Humanist Association to ruin local campaigns promoting atheism. Meanwhile, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has given them £35,000 of taxpayers’ money to promote secularism in the public services under equality and human rights law…

Healthy marriages build healthy families, and healthy families build a healthy society… While approximately half of all cohabiting couples with children will split by the time the child is five, the equivalent figure for married couples is one in 12.

As a society, we have allowed marriage to become devalued and apart from the financial cost of family breakdown, the impact upon young people is incalculable… Family breakdown fuels crime, adding £60billion to its annual cost; drug and alcohol abuse adding £40billion and educational failure a further £20billion…

Polling carried out by YouGov that showed 57 per cent believed the law should promote marriage in preference to other kinds of family structure. An overwhelming 85 per cent backed a tax break to promote marriage…

A recent study suggests that among adults there is no longer a universal standard of what honesty means… The academic researchers conclude that attitudes to honesty are so variable that the legal standard needs to be revised.”