Filed for The Guardian by Trinidad N’siswe

Of 536 same-sex couples of all ages who tied the knot in December 2005, after same-sex civil union became law in the United Kingdom, almost half are now divorced or living apart.

Research published by the Social Policy Foundation suggests that male same-sex civil partnerships are far more likely to fail than female, and both exceed the rate of failure of heterosexual marriage.

Male same-sex partnerships are ten times more likely to split up within the first year of a relationship than heterosexual marriages.  Female same-sex partnerships are three times more likely to see a separation within the same period.

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I am somewhat bemused to find three men in cassocks stepping into the ring to take on the “silly bureaucrats” and the “minority in leadership who want to privatise religion”.  But that’s what has happened today.

First off, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams put his name to a piece in The Mail On Sunday saying:-

What makes some people suspicious of Christmas these days is that it’s too religious. This year there seems to have been even more stories about the banning of Christian images and words by silly bureaucrats.

Right on cue the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, weighed in during GMTV’s Sunday Programme with:-

“We must avoid the kind of political correctness that is creeping in and undermining the public expression of the Christian faith.”

He said he was concerned about “a worrying hostility towards Christianity and all religions by a minority of people in leadership today who want to privatise religion, push it to the boundaries, not allow a voice in the public arena.”

Meanwhile the Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, declared his diocese to be fighting back against the politically correct approach to Christmas with a new poster campaign:-

“There have been reports from all over the country about local authorities, businesses, retail centres and even central government trying to take the Christ out of Christmas, claiming Christmas is offensive.

“They seem to want to make Christmas history - the Diocese of Lichfield wants to make Christmas His story”

Ordinarily, we would say these churchmen are part of the liberal problem and preside over an emotionally feminised version of Christianity.  However, even they have limits.  They have, it seems, noticed that the silly bureaucrats and the mysterious minority in leadership have none, and will go on chipping away at every surviving outcrop of Western culture until nothing remains.

The “hands-off” declarations of today reveal a fault-line between religious liberals and committed egalitarian activists.  In essence, the former are drawing a line in the snow.  They are refusing to let their faith be marxised out of existence - which is a point I have made many, many times in respect of Western Man in general.  When all roads lead to extinction, resistance will be the only recourse.

Tamsyn Lewis is an Australian runner, currently preparing for next year’s Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. She is undeniably attractive, and gets a fair bit of media attention here in Australia.

Earlier this month, Tamsyn revealed that she is still haunted by a nightmare experience which occurred in England in 2002, when she was preparing for the Manchester Commonwealth Games.

She was short of money at the time and so decided to base herself in the London suburb of Brixton. It was not a good choice. Not only were two people down the road murdered and her neighbour held up at knifepoint, she herself suffered two attacks during her brief stay.

On one occasion she was at a bus stop when a man leered at her. She told him to go away and he smashed a bottle and threated to cut her and kill her with it. Another time, she was walking along the street when a man tried to pull her into a parked car. She fought him off and ran away.

Brixton is, of course, one of the more multicultural suburbs of London. We are always being told how much our lives will be enriched by the multicultural experience, but clearly Tamsyn does not feel at all rewarded by her time in Brixton. She remains frightened to this day by her experiences there.

Since last weekend’s events in North Cronulla we have once again been treated to the enlightened thinking of some visiting liberals.  It tends to be a frustrating experience.  Stopping these people from displaying their faux-morality long enough to answer a fact-based argument is really very difficult.  But it has ever been thus.  I remember how, back in the 1960’s and even as late as the early 1980’s, Conservative thinkers agonised over the tendency for the educated young to look to a radical left that was all noisy protest.  A great many students were weak and were simply swept along with the rebellious spirit of the times.  But be they weak or strong, we are surely reaping their whirlwind now.

GW

The past few months have been a study of contrasts. On the one hand, in the rarefied atmosphere of the House of Commons the right honourable members have been debating whether to make the criticism of any religious or racial group illegal.  On the other, the law-abiding citizens of Birmingham have been asking themselves a somewhat less theoretical version of the same question, as their city erupted in Pakistani-Black gang warfare.  Meanwhile, from Strasbourg in the West to Nantes in the East, from Marseilles in the South to Paris in the North, the Fifth French Republic descended into anarchy and bloodshed.  The perpetrators just happened to be almost exclusively North African or Sub-Saharan African.

The West sure takes diversity, equality and tolerance seriously.  It has grown to be inevitable that, whatever harm “diversity” brings, the anti-racist crowd will demand more effort from the majority.  Let us, however, consider what has been done for Britain’s sexual, racial and religious minorities over the past few years.  Laws banning various forms of discrimination have been passed.  European directives have been agreed on.  A statue commemorating that great hero of the multicultural morality play, Nelson Mandela, is due to be erected in Trafalgar Square.  The new, super-egalitarian Commission for Equality and Human Rights (pdf) will have enough resources lavished on it to lift every single Briton above the poverty line (if it isn’t raised, which it will be).

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All week I have been asking people I know this question: Why were convoys of Lebanese men allowed to drive into Cronulla and other Sydney suburbs smashing cars and shops and bashing local residents? Surely, these large convoys must have been noticed by the police. Why weren’t they stopped?

My work colleagues gave me some unconvincing answers: that the police couldn’t be everywhere, or that the police could not have stopped the cars.

But now a different answer has surfaced. The Seven Network claims to have a police report instructing officers to stay away from Punchbowl Park where the convoy was gathering in order not to “antagonise” the young Lebanese men. The convoy then moved into Cronulla unimpeded by police.

I can only hope that the media pursues this incident vigorously. Who was responsible for the directive? What was the thinking behind it? It was a decision with serious consequences: it left the residents of Cronulla unprotected from a serious attack.

Police tactics will be different for this Sunday, though. A force of 1500 officers is being organised to patrol Cronulla and surrounds.

Meanwhile, there have been four attacks on churches in Sydney, the worst of which was an attack on a Catholic primary school during a Christmas carols service. Shots were fired into cars and parents abused.

Our threads have been humming with the developments Down Under.  But one comment posted yesterday on JJR’s initial, heads-up post of 10th December deserves not to be missed.

This is it:-

As an activist against muslim imperialism I declare my solidarity with the brave young Australians who took own initiative in order to quell the Lebanese Muslim terror.  Like everywhere else muslims are establishing a foothold they will attempt to takeover by means of aggression and under the protection of the left-wing fools.

Currently I am living in the Netherlands where I escaped to as a Javanese-Balinese Hindu woman and activist from Indonesia.  While Australians were brutally murdered by the muslim-barbarians on Bali I suffered a very great loss during the same muslim terrorist attack.

My aim is to unite all non-muslims worldwide in order to be able to counter muslim aggression.  I came to Europe only to learn that Europe is now turning into Eurabia.

To the Australian heroes of Sydney I send my respect.  I would very much like to receive as much possible information on what really is going on, not the sweet stories of the political correct press agencies, so I can publish it on my site.

Dewi Sudarsono

Here is the link to her site, The Alter of Democracy.  It deserves to be read, too.

Not many, one would think, who are neither neoconservatives, Blairites nor arms manufacturers.  The more one ponders Iraq present and future and the mired progress in Afghanistan, the more difficult it becomes to see a durable enhancement in security for the West at the end of all this.  And that, surely, is the only honest measure by which we might justify all that has been done in our name, including the sacrifice of our sons.

The stakes are appallingly high, with a nuclear revenge attack on Western soil being considered “inevitable” by some US specialists.  Will an outside chance of victory in the WoT and even the establishment of American Empire and its hegemony in the ME really be worth that?

Beyond Iraq, here’s a swift tour of the good ole WoT in the ME.  Judge for yourself whether this is shaping up nicely for neocons or whether it has already spun out of control.

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Given the, literally, hundreds of movies and documentaries about the Holocaust, it struck me as rather odd that there wasn’t a comparable body of work about the Holodomor—the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933.  I finally found one 55 minute documentary about it.  But then I found something more disturbing ...

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