Good news - and bad...

First some good news...

1. Happy marriages make for a healthy heart
Yes, we know that happy marriages provide lots of benefits.
Citizen Link, part of Focus on the Family, reports on the latest study -
"Want a healthy ticker? A new study from the University of Rochester indicates a happy marriage is just as important as healthy habits. According to the study, published online Aug. 22 in Health Psychology, 83 percent of both men and women in good marriages were more likely to be alive 15 years after cardiac bypass surgery than the unmarried or those in poor marriages. Though other studies have linked good marriages to heart health, this is the first to examine long-term survival rates after bypass surgery.... 
Gender differences were astounding. Sixty percent of men in unhappy marriages also survived, as did 36 percent of single men. But only 28 percent of women in unhappy marriages were still alive 15 years later, compared to 27 percent of single women. . ."
Click here to read CL report.

2. And marriages make for a better economy!
Click here to read a 26 page Research Report by the Family Research Council from May 2011:
"MARRIAGE AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING: THE ECONOMY OF THE FAMILY RISES OR FALLS WITH MARRIAGE"

Then the bad news...

1. Same-sex 'marriage' in the UK
The UK governemnt led by David Cameron, has just annoucned that the govenemnt will legalise same-sex 'marriage' by 2015.
Of course the initiative has been poushed by the Coalition 'partner', the Liberal Democrats. A bit like our situation withteh Greens here in Australia. The govenment adopting policy that the Greens wnat - just to stay in power! 
Read the media report in the Daily Mail: Gay marriage 'to be made legal in Britain by 2015'

2. Parliamentary friends 'forum' promotes homosexual rights...
The Parliamentary Friends of LGBTI Australiansgroup held a forum at Parliament House on 13 September - Liberal MPs Malcolm Turnbull and Warren Entsch, Greens Christine Milne and Labor MPs Anthony Albanese, Peter Garrett, Stephen Conroy, Louise Pratt, Doug Cameron and Penny Wong attended.

Telstra was the sponsor of the event - they even produced a pink 'logo' for a banner and Telstraexecutive Paul Geason spoke about supporting diversity in the workplace.