God it hurts.
Perhaps that's why I cast my eye towards America, home of the mall, the strip, the remote control, the Lincoln town car, and every other bright idea ever devised this side of the Old Testament, and you know folks, America obliged.
God walked into my life once again, and made it clear what we need in the antipodes.
Afraid that gay marriage might ruin your marriage, afraid that gay marriage might ruin western civilization as we know it?
There's a bigger threat, and that's divorce. Think about it. The going rate for divorce in America is up around 47.9%! Sure the going rate for divorce in Australia is only around 40-43%, (here), 0r 46% (here and here), depending on your statistical bent, but there's no doubt Australians resent American leadership in these matters and will strive harder to do better. Or worse, depending on your point of view (see the shocking statistics for 2007 here).
Well there's only a few countries that have banned divorce, like the Philipinnes and Malta, but of course the Roman Catholic church doesn't allow the concept, and only accepts arcane procedural annulments of a most technical kind (here's how to start your annulment proceedings Catholic style tomorrow).
Tony Abbott being Catholic, it seems only appropriate to think about the best ways to preserve traditional marriage, and help out the Church in its lonely struggle to keep people tied together in hell on earth for the rest of their lives.
Frankly full blame divorce proceedings no longer cut the mustard. Which is why it was tremendously exciting to hear about John Marcotte's 2010 California Marriage Protection Act campaign. You know we rarely - perhaps it's our anarcho-syndicalist libertarian background - support campaigns, but sometimes you just have to join the collective, and this is one time the common good must hold sway.
Now some have taken this campaign as having a satirical bent - 'No Divorce' Initiative Lampoons Gay Marriage Ban is a typical header.
But it's not a frivolous thought. And it will help people discriminate between traditional heterosexual marriage and johnny and dick come lately nonsense like gay marriage.
Forget 'at fault' provisions in divorce proceedings, just ban divorce proceedings altogether.
Simple QED legislated togetherness. Harmony and domestic bliss through an act of parliament.
That's why, as part of this site's ongoing campaign to draw your attention to successful social policy initiatives and progressive concern for marital togetherness, we commend this great new campaign to you.
If there's anyone out there who really cares about the institution of marriage in Australia, what are you waiting for? Sure it might take awhile to get a referendum going, but life isn't for the faint hearted, and anyone who deeply cares will walk the extra mile, preferably not in my shoes but in their own ...
Ah California dreaming. Bankrupt, but always one step ahead of the game ...
Now while thinking of California dreamin', never mind the sordid subtext of what went on in The Mamas & Papas (Mamas & Papas singer accused of rape by daughter) or the sordid specious rumours surrounding Mama's death by munching on a ham sandwich, when likely enough it was fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity, a form of steatosis (here).
Forget all that. Likely as not, a too free attitude to divorce and traditional marriage was at the bottom of all of that. Those filthy, bloody, perverted, depraved, stinking, free lovin' hippies were the start of our descent into madness, so sing along and dream of a world free of divorce ... you might even pretend to pray.
Stopped in to a church I passed along the way.
Well I got down on my knees
(got down on my knees)
And I pretend to pray.
(I pretend to pray).
You know the preacher likes the cold.
(preacher likes the cold).
He knows I'm gonna stay.
(knows I'm gonna stay).
California dreamin'
(California dreamin') on such a winter's day.
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