Pastor Heneghan of Gospel Community Church sees the issue of population growth in more biblical terms, specifically those taken from Genesis and Revelation. “Some people think that what I’m doing–having eleven children–is wrong. I don’t really get into that much. The Bible says ‘be fruitful and multiply.’ That’s my belief system. They don’t believe in God, so they think we have to conserve what we have. But in my belief system, He’s going to give us a new earth.” Overpopulation isn’t a problem in a universe where God promises a clean global slate.

From The Nation, about a large and fast-growing sect (naturally!), Quiverfull, that believes “God” should entirely control how many children a woman has, and her husband control everything she does.

… and that the “whites” must work to “outbreed” the blacks.

Lovely.

The assistant referee makes what you think is a bad decision about a penalty kick (although by no means is there unanimity on that point).

What do you blame? Of course it must be the referee’s gender that is at fault. Well, if she’s female: that’s the conclusion of the Luton football manager Mike Newell.

Funnily enough, I’ve never heard the same explanation for a male official – might be that you claim he needs glasses, that he can’t run fast enough, that he doesn’t really understand the game – but I’ve never heard a male’s gender blamed.

Newell said: “She should not be here. I know that sounds sexist, but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than that.
“We have a problem in this country with political correctness, and bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom.
“It is absolutely beyond belief. When do we reach a stage when all officials are women, because then we are in trouble?
“It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems.
“This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism, for the politically-correct idiots.”

Will be interesting to see the reaction to this. Just imagine what the reaction would be if he had said the same things about race. He’d be out on his ear in a second. Somehow, however, I’m not expecting that result when gender is the issue.