On January 12th, 2006 The BBC News website contained this report:

"(UK government) Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is to rush through laws to tighten up restrictions on sex offenders working in schools in England. The move follows the revelation (that UK government) ministers backed the appointment of a PE teacher even though he had a police caution for accessing child porn."

The British media and public are currently (and rightly) horrified that, apparently, several men working in British schools are either previous sex offenders or they have previously been cautioned by the police "for accessing child porn."
It is completely understandable that people are shocked and outraged by this - however, there are major double standards in operation here. It remains the case that British school teachers have guidelines which warn them not to be negative towards, or to be critical of, homosexuality. Gay groups have actually been encouraged by the government within the last two years to give a schools presentation on homosexuality as an 'alternative lifestyle.' The confusion is caused by the insistence that secular government itself can decide what is 'moral' and what is 'immoral behaviour.'  To make things even worse, major British Christian organizations have for several years refused to get involved in this area and have quietly gone along with the liberal assumption that abortion and homosexuality are perfectly fine.

Many members of the Church of England, for example, are outraged that the Archbishop of Canterbury apparently refuses to involve himself in this area and it is no surprise that the C of E is again starting to rapidly  lose members, but neither have I heard any words of condemnation for liberalism's double standards from the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Salvation Army or the Methodist Conference. Apparently British Christian organizations are simply not going to challenge the increasing  assumption that liberal secular governments have the right to decide and to legislate their own definition of moral behaviour.

The moral confusion which we witness in our society is probably the inevitable result of a post-Christian society's uncertainty as to what constitutes right and wrong; right and wrong and good and evil are spiritual matters, they are simply not matters which anti-God secularism can rightly - and consistently - comprehend. This is, as already stated, an area where Christian organizations should be insisting on their right to be heard!

I have never heard a definition of 'public morality' from a liberal, secular government but I have a feeling that it would fully support moral relativism, that is, there is no such thing as 'ultimate truth' and, therefore, what is bad for one person might be good for another; therefore adultery is not necessarily wrong and (certainly not sin!) and that - within reason - people have the full right to free self expression. Such a definition would surely castigate condemnation and judgmentalism. It would be eminently kind to criminals too. This is what liberals believe, after all - but perhaps the most pivotal point is their rejection of absolute truth. The late Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer rightly focused on this vital point as the pivot which, once breached,  has necessarily led modern society into the most gross and obscene moral nihilism.  

Even as society leaders speak of a new tolerant and permissive age, pressure is building on the dam wall; when that pressure can no longer be resisted, the flood waters will burst through - destroying everything in their path.
The lesson of modern history appears to be that there is always a strong reaction to a long period of liberal values (we may think of Hitler crushing the ultra-liberal weimar government experiment as a giant may crush a beetle). The most worrying thing in modern Britain and Europe is that liberalism has become the official creed of a united Europe (actually dis-united, but we will leave that for now), so this covers several nations. My present feeling is that the waters will finally burst through to destroy this would-be super-state in the form of a huge economic depression which will engulf everything in its path.

Britain and Europe have turned their backs on Almighty God, replacing faith in the Lord Jesus Christ with faith in prosperity, political alliances and liberalism. In similar fashion, Ancient Israel also turned away from a God who had clearly revealed Himself to them and suffered a horrendous penalty for doing so.....
The Christian Hawk -3
January, 2006.