During a survey of HIV clinics, one care provider told researchers, "It's not a question of them not knowing how to save their lives. It's a question of them knowing if their lives are worth saving."

Now, it seems, those same disputes have come to the Pentecostal world, with Urshan College giving the Society of Pentecostal Studies (SPS) the boot as a venue for their gathering because the SPS had the bad taste to allow a prominent LGBT activist on the program. (Pentecostals will have to excuse my Palm Beachy characterisation of things, you like to celebrate roots, those are mine.) This has led to a firestorm on the "online trash fire" that Facebook has become.

David Goodhew, editor of the research, said the shift must be reflected in the Church's theology and practice.

'One doesn't just do theology by weight of numbers but it would be simply unjust to ignore the fact that the bulk of the Anglican Communion is now outside the Western world and also to ignore the gifts there,' he said in an interview with Christian Today.

Professor John Finnis explained the slippery slope in Britain where protection against abortion up to the time of birth on the grounds of disability were removed in 1990. At that time he wrote to MPs that the new law would allow late abortions for harelip and cleft palate which are reversible conditions. Though ridiculed, his warnings have proved accurate. Late abortions are now justified on the grounds that some tests can only be made at 23 weeks.