MENDING BROKEN LIVES
divorce not a penalty CHURCHMAN’S FRANK VIEW SEX INSTRUCTION' NEEDS By pr « s * Amu’.— Copyright Rec. 7 p.m. London, August 20. Frank views on divorce were expressed at the Modern Churchmen’s Conference at Oxford. Dr. Douglas White, a member of the Archbishops’ Commission on Sex Relations, eaid divorce should not be a - crime, but a method of mending broken lives. The laws of Church and State should be similar. The sanctity of marriage wotdd be best secured by euding marriages that were a disgrace to tne name. Judicial separation was a most immoral and most demoralising invention. Divorce ought io be regarded not as a penalty incurred by one party but as a relief for the other or both.
Dealing with the same subject, Dr. 11. D. A. Major, principal of Ripon Hall, said: "Church discipline does not educate, but irritates, and ought frankly and definitely to be abandoned. The Church must give more instruction in sex problems.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1930, Page 9
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