Margaret Court is the women’s tennis equivalent of Don Bradman.

Perhaps the greatest female athlete Australia has produced.

Winner of all four Grand Slam tournament singles titles in the same calendar year (1970).

She won a record 62 Major titles overall.

The International Tennis Hall of Fame states, “For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match her”.

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Margaret Court still gets into the news.

Yesterday, for example.

She apparently said, “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman . . . I believe it’s important for young people to know that . . . .”

And, “I say what God says, and that’s why I’ve spoken out.”

Mrs Court, a lapsed Catholic, is now an office bearer in a Pentecostal group.

She has said that homosexuality is often the result of sexual abuse.

This resulted in a “backlash” with people saying there is no scientific evidence of such a connection.

There is, of course, but that is hardly the point.

The point is that homosexual acts are contrary to natural law and young people should know that and should be protected from entrapment.

Britain’s Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice has recently ruled that there is no justification for prohibiting private abortion clinics from advertising their services on television.

Private abortion businesses will be permitted to advertise themselves using terms such as “post-conception advice services”, with the emphasis on how they can arrange ultrasound scans etc.

They will not be obliged to state that they have a financial interest in aborting the babies of those who come seeking “post-conception advice”.

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The Committee requires that the adverts will be subject to a Code stipulating that such advertisements are not to be “harmful, offensive or misleading”.

Doesn’t everybody know that abortion is harmful to the baby?

And isn’t it also harmful to the whole society — in its cheapening of the sanctity of human life.

The small lives to be exterminated are children of God.

And therefore of infinite worth – a fact more important than the profit margins of Mary Stokes International etc.

The other day, Brisbane Times newspaper reported the marriage of a man, Joseph Guiso, and his dog, Honey, in Toowoomba, Queensland, on 30 November 2011:

“Thirty of the couple’s closest friends and family were in attendance for the emotional ceremony, held at dusk”.

“You’re my best friend and you make every part of my day better,” Mr Guiso’s vows read.
(www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/toowoomba-man-marries-dog-20101201-18g5o.html)

At present most people would not want the law to recognise such a “marriage”.

But anybody who supports same-sex marriage is logically obliged to support man-animal marriage.

For those who don’t believe in Natural Law (eternal laws written in the heart of every man by God) there are no absolutes – nothing is absolutely right or absolutely wrong.

Our guide to behaviour can only be to do whatever turns us on.

This is the perverse world which the Australian Labor Party and their friends, the Greens, plan for your children to live in.

Jesus Christ taught about marriage.

He said, “From the beginning of creation, God created male and female. This is why a man must leave father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh . . . .” (Saint Mark’s gospel, chapter 10, verse 7)

Christ’s church has always taught that the primary purpose of marriage is the generation and bringing-up of children.

Marriage, therefore, by definition, excludes homosexual and other unnatural behaviour.

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For Catholics, the Church has always defined, as per the old Code of Canon Law, that “the primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of children”.

Having children, where it is possible, is essential to the nature of marriage itself — a participation in the creative work of God.

Marriage is a Sacrament of the Church. God is a participant in the marriage.

And as Jesus taught, “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.” (Saint Mark’s gospel, chapter 10, verse 9)

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In practice, it is found that the safest place for a child — least likely to suffer child abuse — is to be raised is in a family situation with his/her biological mother and father, married and living together.

Yesterday Queen Elizabeth II was welcomed to Australia at a dinner at Parliament House, Canberra.

She was allowed to speak, but not until after listening to a preliminary speech by Australia’s Prime Minster, Julia Gillard.

It was supposedly a speech of welcome — but that notion rang fairly untrue, the Gillard having shown the previous day her contempt for the Queen, by means of disrespectful body language.

JG informed the Queen that Australia is a “vibrant multicultural democracy”.

She later corrected herself by acknowledging the bizarreness of Her Majesty having been monoculturally greeted by “a female Governor General, a female Prime Minister and female Chief Minister”.

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The Queen was kind enough to ignore most of what the Prime Minister said.

She did not refer to the effeminisation of the Australian nation and its paucity of masculine leadership.

She did mention that our highest decorated scientist is Prof B Schmidt, a male.

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The Queen also mentioned that next week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth will be an opportunity to find new ways to bring about “positive change”.

Perhaps.

But there are influential power-mongers determined to make it a time of further NEGATIVE change.

Nations which, like Papua New Guinea, do not at present have –and which intend never to have – legalised same-sex marriage and same-sex couples bringing up children . . . .

These nations are going to get a lot of blackmail-type pressure put on them at the CHOGM.

The Queen — being perhaps basically a politician after all — chose to keep out of that one.

Most Australians are a bit sick of the two major parties.

They are painfully alike in many ways — both fixated on getting and retaining power, regardless of any principles.

Many see the Greens as economically ignorant — and family-wise a disaster.

But where else can thinking Australians turn?

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Something is about to happen.

Next Queensland state election will be held in 2012. The date is not decided, but it can’t be later than June 12.

A NEW party which has never stood candidates before will be contesting every seat.

The Bob Katter Australian Party – otherwise known as Ausparty.

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Australians are sick of the big parties allowing Coles and Woolworths to control 85 percent of food sales between them. AUSPARTY’s policy is to permit no chain’s share to exceed 22 percent. Note that in the USA, the biggest retail chain, Wal-Mart, controls only 20 percent.

Australians are sick of the big parties turning Australia into a food-importing country. Ten years ago, Australia exported 4 times as much food as it imported. According to ABS figures, we’ll be importing less than we produce by 2015. AUSPARTY’s policy is to introduce a 10 percent customs duty on all imports — and to place warning labels on containers of non-Australian produced food products.

Australians are sick of a lot of other things. In pretty much all cases, the AUSPARTY policies seem like a breath of fresh air.

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Check their website for lots of other examples: www.ausparty.org.au/