In the same article I responded to earlier today, Chris Kenny made the further claim, To argue children do best within a marriage with a mother and a father is not fair or accurate. It insults widows and widowers, divorced…
Marriage and therapeutic politics
Chris Kenny, Same-sex marriage: Yes, but spare the virtue-signalling, The Australian (19 Sept 2017): It seems to be about more than marriage. Clearly the marriage reform has become a proxy cause for acceptance. As a society we are being asked…
Why just saying ‘No’ is as an affront to the proponents of marriage redefinition
On the same day that the Parliament passed legislating policing speech in order to protect the feelings of same-sex attracted and their supporters, Israel Folau, a notable rugby league player, was embroiled in controversy for the following remark: “I love…
Sheridan contra Aquinas
In what has to be one of the most bizarre entries in the debate over marriage redefinition, Greg Sheridan in ‘Yes to same-sex marriage and to religious freedom’, The Australian, (Sept 6, 2017) enlist Aquinas and Augustine in an amateurish attempt…
The ‘Howard changed the definition of marriage’ canard
If you’ve been following the marriage redefinition debate in Australia you may have heard the claim made that, in 2004, Howard introduced an amendment – overwhelming passed by the House and Senate – that changed the definition of marriage by…
Rabbi Sacks on the vulnerability of children post-Sexual Revolution
This is a clear and sobering summary following the publication of the report by Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘The Children’s Commissioner’s Report on measuring the number of vulnerable children’, of the situation facing children in the aftermath of the Sexual Revolution. Rabbi Sacks points out previous studies that show that increased vulnerability to poor economic and social outcomes is largely the result of the decline in marriage as the principal social order in which children are generated, cared for, and educated.