Same Sex Marriage is not right.

MPs Flip-flop on Trans as Election Nears - Coalition For Marriage Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has said she will no longer use the phrase “trans women are women” as her understanding of the issue has “evolved”. Keegan is on record using the phrase in 2020 in response to a question from a local LGBT forum, where she added that ‘trans women’ (i.e...

INTERVIEW: ONE DOCTOR'S STAND FOR REAL MARRIAGE - JULIE MAXWELL - Coalition For Marriage Dr Julie Maxwell is an experienced paediatrician and a member of the Church of England’s General Synod. She recently stepped away from her medical career to lead Lovewise, an organisation dedicated to providing evidence-based relationships and s*x education materials for children. In our recent in...

THE PREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF REDEFINING MARRIAGE - Coalition For Marriage It’s 10 years since the first same-s*x marriages took place in England and Wales. Coalition for Marriage was formed in 2012 to oppose the freshly proposed legislation to introduce same-s*x marriage. C4M’s public petition against the redefinition of marriage was signed by 669,444 people, demonstr...

INTERVIEW: ARCHBISHOP’S REPORT “INDIFFERENT TO THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN” - Coalition For Marriage Revd Dr Ian Paul joins me to discuss the marriage-related outcomes of the Church of England’s recent Synod. His perspective offers a critical lens on these debates, particularly their impact on the understanding of marriage within the Church. You can listen to Ian’s insights here. The Living in ...

INTERVIEW: PRO-MARRIAGE TEACHER CALLED ‘SAFEGUARDING’ RISK - Coalition For Marriage Agency teaching assistant, Ben Dybowski, tells me how he was sacked for serious professional misconduct because he dared to believe marriage is between a man and a woman. More specifically, Ben says he was sacked, because he refused to promise not to share those views – even in his private life. P...

INTERVIEW: SCOTLAND LAUNCHES ‘COMPLETE ATTACK ON PARENTING’ - Coalition For Marriage Scotland has launched a “complete attack on parenting”, according to Joanna Cook of The Christian Institute. Joanna explains the significant concerns surrounding the Scottish Government’s proposed conversion practices law, urging us to take part in the consultation before 2nd April. She says t...

GOOD NEWS: LIBERALS DEFEATED IN IRISH REFERENDUM - Coalition For Marriage In a landslide defeat for the Irish Government, last Friday voters rejected plans to undermine constitutional protections for marriage. The Government proposed changing the Constitution to equate marriage with other “durable relationships”. It also recommended scrapping national safeguards that ...

INTERVIEW: WE’RE ROBBING CHILDREN OF SOMETHING THEY NEED – PASTOR RYAN CLARKE - Coalition For Marriage Pastor Ryan Clarke is facing significant challenges after expressing support for man-woman marriage. He found his Derbyshire church shunned by local schools after contacting a council official to point out that belief in real marriage isn’t homophobic. You can listen to his story here: Pastor Clar...

Interview: Have your say on gender guidance for schools - Coalition For Marriage John Denning from The Christian Institute joins me to explore the significant challenges posed by the trans movement to the understanding of real marriage. He encourages us all to take part in the Government’s consultation on gender guidance for schools – links below. You can listen to John expl...

MPS DEFEAT ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ BAN, BUT THREAT REMAINS - Coalition For Marriage The latest attempt to ban ‘conversion therapy’ failed in the House of Commons last week. Lloyd Russell-Moyle’s Private Member’s Bill was strongly opposed by a number of MPs, who made powerful speeches criticising it for threatening to prosecute parents who discourage their children from ch...

Chancellor urged to boost tax support for marriage - Coalition For Marriage Marriage should be much better recognised in the tax system to reduce the burden on families with a stay-at-home parent, a new report backed by MP Miriam Cates has said. The UK is among the worst countries in the world for over-taxing single-earner families, according to the report from the Family H...

Rom. 1:18-32 They got it wrong not God !

IDENTITY AND THE WORSHIP OF SELF: INTERVIEW WITH REV MATTHEW ROBERTS - Coalition For Marriage Reverend Matthew Roberts, author of ‘Pride: Identity and the Worship of Self’, sat down with me to critically explore views on marriage and identity from his perspective. Roberts provides a compelling analysis, challenging modern conceptions of self and autonomy, by highlighting the societal ben...

Married Adults Now In A Minority - Coalition For Marriage The popularity of marriage has continued to decline. Now, for the first time, less than half of people aged 16 and over in England and Wales are married. The proportion dropped to 49% in 2022, down from 49.4% in 2021 and 50.9% in 2012, Office for National Statistics figuresshow. The statistics for b...

FAMILY AS A UNIT OF RESISTANCE – PAUL DIRKS INTERVIEW - Coalition For Marriage Pastor Paul Dirks, a prominent Canadian author and church minister, shares encouraging insights from his book ‘Deep Discipleship for Dark Days’ on how we can protect marriage in today’s society. My full discussion with Paul is available here: Paul expresses concern over the current threats to ...

Denying Biology Is A Vote Loser - Coalition For Marriage Did the Labour Party just lose a by-election because of its intolerance of common sense on biological s*x? It certainly looks that way. In the London borough of Hackney, Labour suspended its council by-election candidate, Laura Pascal, after she tweeted her dissent from transgender ideology. “Tran...

REAL MARRIAGE DEFENDERS FACE 7 YEARS IN JAIL - Coalition For Marriage Parents who refuse to let their children change gender and advocates of traditional marriage could face up to seven years in jail under Scottish Government plans to ban so-called ‘conversion therapy’. Under the proposals published last week, actions designed to “change or suppress” someone.....

DON’T USE ‘HUSBAND’ AND ‘WIFE’ TO AVOID OFFENCE, SAYS METHODIST GUIDANCE - Coalition For Marriage The Methodist Church has come under fire after telling its ministers they should sometimes avoid using the terms “husband” and “wife” because they convey an assumption that is not “the reality for many people”. The advice appears in the denomination’s ‘Inclusive Language Guide’, wh...

Those who stood firm for real marriage - Coalition For Marriage In the first of three compilations from 2023, individuals share their powerful narratives of standing firm in defence of real marriage. This inspiring series is a source of encouragement for all who share our values. Watch their stories online here: https://youtu.be/gGHdCecMkEE The video captures t...

Scottish trans Bill lawfully blocked by Westminster - Coalition For Marriage A senior judge has ruled that the UK Government acted lawfully when it vetoed the Scottish Government’s self-ID gender law earlier this year. Lady Haldane, presiding over Scotland’s Outer House of the Court of Session, said Alister Jack, the Scottish Secretary, was within his rights to block th...

Interview: “Kids aren’t made to bear the weight of grown-up s*xuality” - Coalition For Marriage In a recent conversation with Jeff Johnston from US-based Focus on the Family, he explores how the redefinition of marriage inevitably leads to teaching children about transgender concepts. As a recognised authority on the subject of marriage and human s*xuality, Jeff provided an in-depth look at th...

NEW BRIEFING: PARTY CONFERENCE POLICIES ON MARRIAGE - Coalition For Marriage Last month’s party conferences discussed several issues connected to real marriage. We’ve produced a new briefing highlighting what the main parties said on marriage and the family and gender. The briefing mentions the issue of conversion therapy. Following the King’s Speech on 7 November, the...

Interview: Former bishops’ advisor discusses C of E same-s*x blessings - Coalition For Marriage The C of E’s House of Bishops has announced that blessings for same-s*x couples will soon be able to be used in public worship. Last month, they released their legal and theological reasoning. Before this document was published, I sat down with Dr Martin Davie, former Theological Advisor to the Ho...

MARRIAGE IS ‘THE ULTIMATE SEX-DEFINED SPACE’ - Coalition For Marriage If people aren’t gender-neutral then why should marriage be? That’s the big question that writer Glen Scrivener has been posing recently to those he meets who say no to transgender ideology but yes to same-s*x marriage. As the tide has turned against trans ideology in the past few years, more ...

INTERVIEW: REV DR CLIFFORD HILL - Coalition For Marriage At 97 years old, Rev Dr Clifford Hill has sought to influence UK legislation for the benefit of children and families. An ordained minister and a sociologist, he sat down with me to discuss the significance of marriage between one man and one woman. Amid a culture where emotional narratives often ec...