DIVORCE PREFERRED
TO JUDICATE SEPARATION. .United Press Association--By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.] ‘ LONDON, Aiigust 20. Frank views on divorce were expressed at . the , Anglican Modern Churchmen’s Conference a.t -Oxford. Doctor Douglas White,. a member of the Archbishops’ Commission on Sex Relations, said :—Divorce should not be a crime, but a method of mending broken lives. The laws of the Church and-of’the State should be similar. The sanctity of marriage would best he secured’by ending marriages that were a disgrace to the name. He asserted that a judicial separation was immoral, and was a most demoralising invention. Divorce ought to he regarded not as -a penalty incurred by one party, but as a relief for the other party, or for both parties. Dealing with the same subject, Dr. H. D. A. Major, Principal of R.ipon Hall, said:—“Tlic Church discipline does not educate, hut irritates. It ought frankly and definitely to he abandoned. The Church must give more instruction in >sex problems.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1930, Page 3
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158DIVORCE PREFERRED Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1930, Page 3
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