Gay-Marriage Vote: Caveat Emptor

‘And when Christianity is more completely eradicated from our consciousness, it will dawn on the culture that without God there is no final accountability. Life is just what you can get away with, and no ultimate price to pay’.
—Greg Sheridan

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When ‘identity politics’ sees a transfer of power to those who imagine themselves to have been marginalised, when the earth itself is considered a victim and, simultaneously and ironically, an object of worship, it is no exaggeration to suggest we are entering a new age wherein reason must bow to emotion and the old orthodoxies are criminalised. It was this thought, oddly enough, that set me to conjuring memories of long-ago classroom and the great boon of having been introduced as a child to a “dead language”.

I would have been nine, perhaps ten, when ‘GP’ — my teacher Gerald Pennington — began my Latin education. That there was little point in mastering the…