Man up - save our children

Maggie Hamilton told of schools in Queensland where they have had to station security guards at the toilet blocks in the kindergartens because young five-year-old boys are forcing young five-year-old girls to perform sex acts on them. Melinda Tankard Reist in Getting Real said “Pornography is also used to groom children for sex, normalising graphic depictions of sex acts in a child’s psyche. Growing numbers of children are even acting out on other children what they have seen in porn.

The Courier-Mail reported the case of a seven-year-old girl performing oral sex on a boy during lunch time. “The witness said the boy had menaced the girl and threatened her with violence.” (September 13, 2008) Unfortunately these stories are becoming increasingly common but where are the men, where are the fathers?

Thankfully there are still some men left like Jack Sonnemann from Australian Federation for the Family who almost single-handedly got rid of Playboy, the preferred magazine for pedophiles from Australia’s newsagents in 2001. He is also famous for producing the sticker “Real Men Don’t Use Porn”.

Another man a lot of girls will be thankful for is Kelsey Doherty, a young man who has created the website, Demand Your Dignity, a new website for women “from the men who love them, encourage women to demand their dignity”. Doherty says, “The sexualisation of popular culture and media is destroying entire generations of young people”. He charges that pornography has enabled men “to seek only their own needs” and that women are worse off because of the idealisation of “a certain body type and sexual attitude” … The answer to the “pain” some women find themselves in is “Christ-like, selfless men”.

Mahatma Gandhi said, “We must become the change we seek”. Australia needs a new generation of men who, like Kelsey Doherty will man up against the evil seducers of our culture, no matter what the cost.

Australia needs men who will challenge the corporate pedophiles and porn kings who put profit before people. Our children need true fathers who will put the women and children of Australia first. Men who will be man enough to admit their sex drive sometimes controls them in the wrong way and brave enough to seek the help they need to turn around before it is too late.

Australia needs men who will be inspired by the sacrifice of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and realise that the pathway to true manhood demands that we man up against the “Hitler’s” of our day, because that is the only way to save our children.