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/)

A local psychologist told our local paper, “I absolutely despise web-based social media”.

He works with young people harmed by cyber bullying and considering harming themselves.

But these social (anti-social?) media are not going away. More likely, they will increase.

What to do?

There is no law of nature dictating that only superficial/mean/meaningless material can be transmitted electronically . . . .

Or is there?

Is the fault in human nature itself?

A flawed nature armed with technology enabling instant, irretrievable expression of frustrated self-absorption — with no built-in cooling-off period mechanism.

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Those aware that it is God who gives us existence second by second . . . .

That life is a conversation/transaction between oneself and God . . . .

That God is closer to us than we are to ourselves . . . .

Those who understand all this must painstakingly seek to share it with those who don’t.

How?

Best, perhaps, by word of mouth.

The people we meet each day – let’s love them with a selfless, ordered, God-centred love.

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.

A recent study reports that only 4 per cent of women aged 18 to 44 see having a baby as their top priority.

Seven out of ten want to have children at some stage, but apparently want to feel financially secure and have lots of “experiences” before eventually getting around to it.

These ladies delay trying to conceive until they are past their biological prime.

A Sydney professor, Dr William Ledger, said, “It’s significant and surprising that having a baby is not a top life priority for Australian women in the fertile age group”

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Surprising?

Is it surprising that in a community where 90-plus percent vote for political parties that support contraception, sterilisation, in vitro fertilisation, abortion, childcare subsidies etc. . . .

. . . that women and girls having been brought up in such an atmosphere put babies more or less last in their priorities?

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Significant?

What does it signify?

That they consider having molto mod cons around the home trumps being part of the human family?

That they consider bearing and caring for a new developing human being – being a co-creator in partnership with God — is boring compared with going to an office, factory or other workplace?

A new book about atheism and religion is creating some interest.

Swiss multimedia commentator, Alain de Botton, calls his book “Religion for Atheists: a non-believer’s guide to the uses of religion”.

He says modern atheists are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

He has little time for Richard Dawkins, for example. Such people, he says, have forgotten important truths — and must now humbly revisit at least some aspects of Faith to get them back.

Truths about how to live and love, care for others, handle suffering and death etc.

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Some of the book’s suggestions are misguided: for example that atheists copy the idea of a weekly communal meal — as is, he says, “found at the heart of the Catholic Mass”.

No.

The communal meal concept is not the heart of the Mass.

The Mass is first and foremost a sacrifice — the sacrifice of Christ’s Cross made present, its memory celebrated and its saving power applied to the faithful.

Mass can be validly celebrated when non-communal — celebrated by a priest alone.

The Mass is something totally supernatural.

It has no “natural” equivalent that atheists can borrow.

It is part of the Catholic Faith or it is nothing.

New leader of Australia’s Greens Party, Christine Milne, criticises the Gillard government for its obsession with “getting the budget into surplus by 2012-13”.

She recommends forgetting austerity-type responses to budget problems — and putting more money into a free dental scheme.

The Milne-style Greens’ way of dealing with the budget will be basically to slug the miners even more than Labor would — on the pretext of saving the environment.

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Is she really so interested in teeth and in making electricity super-expensive?

Perhaps she is a bit.

But it is evident that she is devoted first and foremost to pushing the homosexual agenda and to destroying Catholicism and traditional morality.

Her dentistry/budgetry comments are mellowish Bob Brown-like icing on the cake . . . .

The cake itself being a mutation of previous Green-ism – worse even than previous Brown-Green-ism.

The Milne is herself a lapsed Catholic – so lapsed that she says her part in imposing pro-homosexual laws in Tasmania (where she was briefly a state MP) was “among her proudest political achievements”.