Pattercake, Pattercake, Baker’s Man …
By Max Musson: Ashers Baking Company, a Christian family owned bakery in Belfast are currently threatened with legal action following their refusal to bake a cake bearing a slogan advocating homosexual marriage. Ashers turned down an order to bake a cake featuring the slogan ‘Support gay marriage’ and bearing the logo of the homosexual rights campaign group, ‘Queer Space’. Homosexual marriage is a highly divisive issue in Northern Ireland where the devolved assembly at Stormont…
A Dangerous Trend
By Colin Liddell: Solon ‘the Wise’ earned his sobriquet when he repealed the laws of Draco in early 6th century Athens. Before then, the laws of Athens had decreed death even for minor offences. Solon realized that if every crime meant death, then a criminal might reason that it would make sense to murder and steal rather than to just to steal; especially if murdering the victim improved the value of the theft and its…