Without light, darkness will reign. Without truth, lies will triumph. Without strong foundations, a house will fall.

Without light, darkness will reign. Without truth, lies will triumph.  Without strong foundations, a house will fall. 
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By Craig Manners
2016

Foundational truths, like marriage, family, freedom to speak up and defend your children against depraved sexual acts being taught in schools, are what Australia has been built on.
 
It is not assured that these strong foundations will always be there. They need to be defended not destroyed. Today is the day you are being called up to defend Australia. Do not renege on your obligation to those who went before you.

The foundation of Marriage for instance is based on:

• the truth that men and women are physically and emotionally complementary,
• the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and
• the reality that children need both a mother and a father.

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Redefining marriage does not simply expand the existing understanding of marriage; it rejects these truths. It will legally discriminate against those who hold the traditional view of marriage, that marriage is only between a man and a woman, and potentially will outlaw the legitimate view of millions of people.

Laws teach. A law which promotes and protects something which God, the Bible, and billions of people around the world have always considered to be physically and mentally harmful will cause social havoc, division and confusion.

It will restrict freedom of speech and religion. It will effectively silence and possibly eventually criminalize those who publicly disagree with depraved behaviour. It will enslave people in many ways rather than advance human flourishing and freedom,

If the law and resources of the State proactively require affirmation of depraved behavior under threat of punishment, and silences a vast majority of citizens, we no longer live in a free country. The indoctrination of school children by the State, restrictions on what Christian and Jewish Australians can speak about in public, good citizens imprisoned and fined for speaking what they legitimately hold to be truth. Australia will no longer be young and free.

Defending marriage is defending children. Children need adults to protect them, to speak up for them, to make wise choices for them, to preserve the best world they can for them, to be good stewards of the present so the children do not suffer harm in the future. It is time to speak up for children, who need protection from harmful ideas, like the normalization of depraved, unnatural, unhealthy practices and lifestyles, and who need both a mum and a dad, and a stable home.

Marriage is society’s least restrictive means of raising and ensuring the safety and well-being of children. It needs protection.

By encouraging the norms of marriage—monogamy, sexual exclusivity, and permanence—the State strengthens civil society and reduces its own role.

Marriage is not a fad or plaything of selfish adults, politicians, radicals, militant Rainbowists, Marxists and social anarchists. It is a foundation of good society. If we dismantle this foundation we dismantle much of what is good in our nation. 

The future of marriage depends on citizens understanding what marriage is and why it matters and then speaking up boldly and insisting that government policies support, not undermine, true marriage.

Key Points

1. Marriage exists to bring a man and a woman together as husband and wife to be father and mother to any children their union produces.
2. Marriage is based on the truth that men and women are complementary, the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and the reality that children need both a mother and a father.
3. Marriage is society’s least restrictive means of ensuring the well-being of children. Marital breakdown weakens civil society and limited government.
4. Government should recognize true marriage because it benefits society in a way that no other relationship does.
5. Government can treat people equally and respect their liberty without redefining marriage.
6. Redefining marriage would further distance marriage from the needs of children and deny the importance of mothers and fathers; weaken monogamy, exclusivity, and permanency, the norms through which marriage benefits society; and threaten religious liberty.

It is time for you to investigate this attack on our nation's foundations, and to then defend true marriage and true family, before we lose them. Do it for your children, your grandchildren and for your country.

Craig Manners
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