May 2012/£4.50/Issue 42 www.standpointmag.co.uk

In defence of marriage Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali and

John Haldane make the case for matrimony as the heart and soul of the family

George Weigel: Obama’s threat to religious liberty

Iain Martin: Scrap your old script, Dave Melanie Phillips: A new age of intolerance Mara Delius: Betrayed by Günter Grass

Michael Pinto-Duschinsky/Andrew Roberts/Karen Horn/Roger Scruton/David Womersley Tibor Fischer/Lionel Shriver/Patrick Bishop/Anne McElvoy/Douglas Murray/Daisy Waugh David Gentleman/Con Coughlin/Tim Congdon/Simon Heffer/Peter Whittle/Derwent May Katharine Birbalsingh/Ruth Dudley Edwards/Nick Cohen/Norman Lebrecht/John Ware