Radical gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has accused the Queen of ‘colluding with prejudice’ by offering her good wishes to a group of Anglicans who uphold the Bible’s teaching on marriage. Quick, arrest the Queen.

Liberal ideology is about the advancement of what one person has aptly called ‘equal freedom’. That is, we should all have equal freedom to pursue happiness in whatever way we want.

The quarterly household survey is out today and one figure in particular is worth highlighting. It relates to middle-aged single men.

Of all of the advocates of the secular agenda, one of the most bracing has to be Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole. Like him or not, he usually uses logical arguments, which are internally consistent. You may not like what he says, but you generally respect the consistency with which he makes his arguments.

The publication of the Ryan Report has led to a debate on the future of denominational education.

Joe McCarthy was the US Senator who famously set up a committee to question prominent Americans about their real or imagined membership of the American communist party with a view to driving them out of public life. It is a chapter of American history that is now looked back on in horror, especially by the left, as an appalling attack on basic civil liberties, an example of paranoia unbound.

While Christian Democrat parties across Europe had a good election, in Ireland, the results from a pro-religion, pro-family perspective were distinctly mixed. Gay Mitchell and Brian Crowley have strong pro-life and pro-family track records.

A truly amazing story emerges from the US of state intrusion on a home Bible group. Home Bible study groups are extremely common among Evangelical Protestants the world over. Typically those who attend their local church on a Sunday go to someone’s house in mid-week to study and discuss a given section of the bible.

The issue of abuse of minors by priests and religious is being used to advance all parts of what we’ll call the secular agenda. A big part of that agenda is to secularise the education system by bringing both primary and secondary schools under State control and to detach them from the various denominations.

Shock and shame are the two predominant sensations on reading through the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. The report details the litany of horrors experienced by children in residential institutions, most of which were run by Catholic orders.

The demographics of Western nations are so appalling that unless we have a social revolution, and soon, we are doomed. That is not being melodramatic. Last week the European Commission hosted the Brussels Economic Forum and the problem of ageing populations was discussed and the figures couldn’t have been more stark.

Gays and lesbians are no more monolithic in their views than any other group within the population. With respect to marriage, for example, there are radical gay rights advocates who don’t believe in marriage for anyone. They believe marriage is a completely outdated institution that gays and lesbians should have nothing to do with it.

The number of American states that have legalised same-sex marriage now stands at four. One of those states is Iowa. The reasoning the supreme court of Iowa used in its recent ruling on the issue shows how radically and harmfully marriage must be redefined in order to justify same-sex marriage.

News that a Christian teacher in Britain has been suspended for expressing his objection to a programme he had to attend that promoted gay rights shouldn’t come as a surprise. Equality absolutism is now the official ideology in Britain and it brooks no opposition, not even of the mildest kind.

Perez Hilton is a very acid-tongued celebrity blogger. He was one of the judges at the annual Miss America contest a few days ago. The favourite to win was Miss California, Carrie Prejean. Until, that is, she was asked a question about same-sex marriage. The question came from Hilton, who is himself homosexual.