It seems strange that the Church of England seems intent on embracing perverse disincentives just as everyone else has woken up to their destructive effects.
These perverse disincentives are what wrecked the welfare system, ruining social housing by encouraging pathological behaviour. They have promoted long-term unemployment by making low-paid work less rewarding than idleness. They have countered and reversed the financial pressures that traditionally encouraged marriage and male parental investment.
Even the Labour Party realises what has gone wrong ”“ but not the Anglicans.
I like the final paragraph:
[blockquote] “That illustrates why the Church of England should be cut loose from the state: not to save British citizens from the influence of religion, but to save the Church from the influence of the state religion.” [/blockquote]