To the point...

This week's columnist Robin Balbernie sees an authoritarian family image in the religious resistance to gay adoption At first sight it is hard to comprehend why the Catholic hierarchy has become so incensed over the idea of children being adopted by homosexuals or lesbians. That is, leaving aside the truism of how we always criticise in others those shameful aspects of ourselves that we have repressed and subsequently projected out, so as to gain the reassurance of distance.