FRANK VIEWS ON DIVORCE.
Sanctity Of Marriage. CHURCH AND STATE LAWS. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 21, 7.8 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 relationship, said that divorce should not be a crime, but a method of mending broken lives. The laws of the Church and State should be similar. The sanctity of marriage was best secured by ending marriages that were a disgrace to the name. Judicial separation was most immoral, and a most demoralising invention. Divorce ought to be regarded not as a penalty incurred by one party, but a relief for the other, or both.
Dealing with the same subject, Dr. H. D. A. Major, principal of Ripon Hall, said that 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18652, 22 August 1930, Page 9
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