National Marriage Day & the UK riots

The really sad thing is that the exact same thing is happening here in Australia. This Tuesday, 16 August 2011, the National Marriage Day celebration is being held in the Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra.

National Marriage Day is a celebration of the joy of marriage and the natural family. I am speaking at this event and helping those who are organising it, but we are having difficulty in getting a Labor party member to speak on behalf of the importance of marriage and the natural family. One of the reasons given is that our Labor friends don't want to offend Penny Wong.

Congratulations have flowed to the well known radical feminist Penny Wong and her lesbian partner on the impending birth of her partner's new baby.

But where are the tears for a child who will grow up without her father in her home? Or where are the tears for the fatherless children who will soon occupy 70% of the capacity of our already overcrowded goal system? Where are the tears for the fatherless children who medicate their father-wound through their self destructive alcohol, drug, porn and sex addictions and who will in many cases end up taking their own life.

Penny will surely be a good mother, but she will never be a good father. Children need a mother and a father. Marriage between a man and woman is the best way to guarantee that children have that right.

The destruction of marriage and the natural family, as in Great Britain, is the best way to spread the epidemic of fatherlessness and social dysfunction. But Penny Wong and many of her Labor Party colleagues seem intent on following their English counterparts and robbing children of their biological birthright. It would seem the Australian Labor Party, under the leadership of radical feminist Julia Gillard, one of the founders of Emily's List, is keen to promote a fatherless and a marriageless society. Julia's defacto marital status being a classic case in point.

So what do Australians want more than anything else in life? Is it to follow in the footsteps of the Prime Minister?

In a revealing article, Miranda Devine shows that's not the case:

"The latest snapshot of Australians' hopes and fears from the pre-eminent social researcher David Chalke, from Quantum tells us what Australians really want - and it's not a carbon tax. More than anything, they say they want a good marriage.

That would be their greatest accomplishment, 83 per cent of Australians said in the latest AustraliaSCAN survey. Coming a close second was the ability to be in control of their lives (which received 82 per cent of the nominations); and third was to have happy and successful children (81 per cent)."

David Chalke, chief consultant for the AustraliaSCAN project said to me when I rang him to verify the figures said that having a successful marriage has been the number one priority and considered the greatest accomplishment, for over 20 years. He said that this holds for both young people and old people. He also said that Australians want to celebrate 'ordinary decency and morality' and are really keen about family.

David went on to say that there are no surprises in these statistics unless you read the 'broadsheets', particularly the Age or the Sydney Morning Herald and watch ABC TV because these media outlets are out-of-step with the great bulk of Australians.