Professor Kuruvilla George, Victoria’s deputy chief psychiatrist has found it necessary to resign from his membership of the board of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission.
As a private citizen he had signed a Senate inquiry submission which argued that marriage should remain a heterosexual state because it was important for the nation’s health.
The submission was signed by 150-plus doctors.
Dr George’s expression of opinion has, according to the media “polarised senior members of the commission” and “provoked angry responses from medical lobby groups which argued that his involvement was inappropriate”.
What did this submission which bothers so many people actually say?
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It says, “ . . . the evidence is clear that children who grow up in a family with a mother and father do better in all parameters than children without”.
Also that “ . . . if there is one major demographic change in western societies that can be linked to a large range of adverse consequences for many children and young people, it is the growth in the numbers of children who experience life in a family other than living with their two biological parents, at some point before the age of 15.”
They also quote research showing that the rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men was 44 times that of other men and 40 times that of women — and that primary and secondary syphilis rates were 46 times that of other men and 71 times that of women. (data presented at the 2010 National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta USA)
(more details at www.doctors4family.com.au/references/ and www.doctors4family.com.au/marriage/)

French feminist, Elizabeth Badinter, has written a new book, “The Conflict: how modern Motherhood undermines the status of women”.

She says, “The object of this book is to defend the right of women to make their own choices and to take issue with this idea that you are a bad mother if you bottle feed your baby, if you put your kid in daycare and if you work . . . .”

Motherhood, she says “has become crushing for women, in the sense that it monopolises women’s time, 24 hours a day . . . dangerous for their desires and their ambitions and their freedom as women.”

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Another article, by a lady calling herself simply Tanya, said:

“I didn’t feel clucky before I became pregnant. But as my body grew to accommodate our child, my mind and spirit also grew to welcome the new life within . . . .

“The demands of a child have shown me that I am able to give far more than I ever thought possible.

My child excels when she feels secure and confident. I am the one person in the world most able to implant that feeling of security in her heart . . . .

Even the most high-flying executive doesn’t have the same influence that I have over the universe. They deal only in material things which are perishable. My career is to raise up a soul which can live forever with God.”

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Which of these two would you prefer to have as your mother?

This week, the New Zealand newspapers have reported how girls are now more violent at NZ schools than boys.

They quote percentages from various surveys.

Boys have always traditionally had rough-and-tumble, outgoing, assertive natures.

After all, it was their job to grow up to defend their family from outside threats, to be the breadwinner and to make leadership decisions.

To keep their forcefulness socially constructive, males have needed the help of their womenfolk — ensuring that their masculinity doesn’t lead into disrespect for women, and especially not into sexual promiscuity, but into fulfilling their family privileges and responsibilities.

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The feminist movement is the worst enemy of boys and men.

The worst enemy of society.

Modern primary schools have too few male teachers.

Mixed-gender secondary schools are, for many boys, hostile places where girls do better.

Many young men find themselves so ill-prepared for coping in the outside world that they “boomerang” back to living with mum and dad again.

Their days spent playing video games, drinking alcohol and occasionally — in sheer frustration — committing violent antisocial acts.

The South Australian state parliament’s Upper House has just voted for a bill to permit lesbian women access to In Vitro Fertilisation.

The justification being that such women are “socially infertile”.

The debate now moves to the Lower House where it has a good chance of being defeated.

Today many children end up on drugs, dropping out of school, abandoning their religion etc.

Would IVF for lesbians help? Would the children involved be better off?

They would have no father, that is for sure.

Are children better off without fathers?

Doesn’t common sense suggest that children, where possible, should have both a father and a mother?

Conceding “rights” to politically-powerful adults at the expense of helpless children is bad — part of a war against the welfare of our younger generation.

Concerning family issues, the voice and the votes of the Church should be unwavering.

Ever wonder where your taxes go?

Much goes on suppressing the Catholic religion.

Listen.

Christians must seek to ensure that young people know about God and his laws. That’s why we have Catholic schools.

Christians must seek to participate in practical and loving care of the poor, sick, dying – hence Catholic hospitals and welfare agencies.

But . . . .

. . . the taxes paid by Catholics are increasingly devoted to abolishing exactly those activities.

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The day comes when any homosexual failing to land a job that he/she sought in a Catholic school, hospital etc., will be able drag the employer endlessly through equal-opportunity tribunals, kangaroo courts etc.

The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, in a recent submission to an Attorney-General’s inquiry, called for “removal of religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws on the basis of sexuality – particularly in relation to employment and the provision of health and community services . . . .”

AFAO and numerous like-minded bodies receive taxpayer funding – your money — via the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA).

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Jesus Christ taught that God’s will regarding “sexuality” is that “a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.”

Will the Church have to “correct” his words?

Perhaps to “a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife and/or same-sex partner . . . .”

Blasphemous?

Stupid?

There’s a real war on in culturesville.

Wars have casualties.

A few years ago, a Jewish lady came up from Melbourne to speak to the students at Donald Secondary College the day before ANZAC Day.

She described, as a child of 12, watching her grandfather being assaulted and strangulated in front of the children by Nazi soldiers, her father taken away and imprisoned, the family’s money and valuables confiscated, their school closed, all Jewish businesses closed down — and all Jews forced to wear a yellow star.

The girl, Eva, suffered many humiliations. She was used for medical “experiments”. By the time her prison was liberated, she was on the point of death from starvation.

After more years of fear, in and out of hiding, the survivors of her family were able to migrate to Australia — where she surprised herself by enjoying a peaceful and happy life from then until now . . . .

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She told the students, “I would like to express deeply felt gratitude to the people of Australia for their generosity of spirit, for granting me and my family refuge in this land of opportunity, mateship, freedom and equality. God bless Australia.”

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Every ANZAC Day we, too, should thank God for what is good in this country.

We should also look hard at ourselves and resolve to remain a nation which lives by the virtues that helped people like Eva in the past.