January 6, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

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Woman accused in fatal burning of sleeping husband

2009 01 06

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — An Australian woman accused of setting her husband’s genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair has been charged with murder.

Prosecutors said 44-year-old Rajini Narayan confessed to neighbors that she set her husband on fire on Dec. 8, 2008, after she saw him hug another woman….(Full Story)

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F4L:  The article states that Rajini Narayan doused her sleeping husband’s penis by using an alcohol-based cleaning fluid and then set it on fire.  He jumped up, overturned the bottle with the cleaning fluid, thereby causing the fire to spread.

Rajini Narayan: “I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else. … I didn’t mean this to happen.”

Right, and as there will be a psychiatric evaluation that will be heard in court this week. It will without a doubt be decided that, firstly, she did not mean this to happen, and that, secondly, it was her inner demons or the devil that made her do it.  Therefore, she will most likely be let off lightly.

The death of her husband?  So what?  He is only a man, she is the victim — even if only of her own perceptions — and the property damage does not matter much because it is covered by insurance anyway.  After all, her husband’s penis was her property with which she could do what she wanted.  That he died was the result of an accident caused by him.  He should not have jumped up and should have taken his deserved punishment like a man, laying down.  The cad, hugging another woman, how dare he!

Anyway, we will soon find out the price of a man’s life in Australia.

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January 6, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

Touchstone - A journal of mere Christianity

January 2009

“We’re from the Government, and We’re Here to End Your Marriage.”

by Stephen Baskerville

The decline of the family has now reached critical and truly dangerous proportions. Family breakdown touches virtually every family and every American. It is not only the major source of social instability in the Western world today but also seriously threatens civic freedom and constitutional government.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that the family serves as the principal check on government power, and he suggested that someday the family and the state would confront one another. That day has arrived.

Chesterton was writing about divorce, and despite extensive public attention to almost every other threat to the family, divorce remains the most direct and serious. Michael McManus of Marriage Savers writes that “divorce is a far more grievous blow to marriage than today’s challenge by gays.”

Most Americans would be deeply shocked if they knew what goes on today under the name of divorce. Indeed, many are devastated to discover that they can be forced into divorce by procedures entirely beyond their control. Divorce licenses unprecedented government intrusion into family life, including the power to sunder families, seize children, loot family wealth, and incarcerate parents without trial. Comprised of family courts and vast, federally funded social services bureaucracies that wield what amount to police powers, the divorce machinery has become the most predatory and repressive sector of government ever created in the United States and is today’s greatest threat to constitutional freedom….(Full Story)

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F4L: Related story:  A history of the decline and fall of the family

A search of the website of Fathers for Life for “the planned destruction of the family” provides more reading on the subject of Stephen Baskerville’s article.

More articles by Stephen Baskerville at Fathers for Life.

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