Monday, 17 March 2008

Repent At Leisure

So Lady McCartney is to have her gargantuan payout. It is high time to entitle each divorcing spouse to one per cent of the other's estate up to fifty per cent, to disentitle the petitioning spouse unless fault be proved, to entitle any marrying couple to register their marriage as bound by the law prior to 1969 as regards grounds and procedures for divorce, to enable any religious organisation to specify that any marriage which it conducts shall be so bound (and to counsel couples accordingly), and to legislate that the Church of England be such a body unless the General Synod specifically resolve the contrary by a two-thirds majority in all three Houses.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 March 2008 at 15:03

    Somehow I do not think Scotland and Wales would want the CofE dictating divorce laws on their territories. Particularly in Scotland. Some Welsh might see the campaign by Lloyd -George to disestablish the CofE in Wales as being undone by the back door and the tithes returning.

    Come to think of it NI where vast majority of the population are not Anglicans but have something to say as well. You do not stir religion in NI.

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  2. David Lindsay18 March 2008 at 17:41

    I never said that, I said that Parliament should legislate for the Church of England as I set out.

    Come to that, since the Methodist and United Reformed bodies also exist by Act of Parliament, it should legislate in the same terms for them, too.

    Two thirds of the Methodist Conference or the URC General Assembly would have to resolve the contary. Like two thirds of the General Synod's House of Laity, in particular, it would never happen.

    As for Northern Ireland, the Catholic and the main Protestant bodies there would be in agreement about this, anyway.

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