Tony is acting like a liberal polly; Do as i say not what i have done.
Sounds pretty normal coming from Tony. The worst thing he has done is bringing his daughters into the spotlight. In future if one of the girls makes a mistake the media will have a feild day.
Abbott & bbarnaby show. They could make a quid from channel 9 i reckon.

Good point Desmond - and this whole hullaballoo reminds me of Sarah Palin's family, career and values issues a while back.

Anyway, the story held a link to a blog of commentary. Laughed when I read this and thought it was worth sharing:

vibenna // Tuesday 26 January 2010 at 9:58 am | Reply

Rachel: “I’m confused as to why only women should stay virgins until they get married. What about the mens? Why are they still allowed to have sex?”

Presumably he is promoting homosexual sex for men before marriage ?

http://inastrangeland.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/more-stripes/

DEsmond writes

'Tony is acting like a liberal polly; Do as i say not what i have done.'

Very much like Ms Wong and Mr Rudd flying off to CopenHagen and around the rest of the world and yet still holding to the Greens religion of gw.

We are unique,

Your contention that any but a handful of young females are behaving like barnyard animals because of spiked drinks is utter nonsense. Most of them actually like behaving like barnyard animals. Those few who do get caught through drink spiking (that’s often the story they tell mum when they get found out) should take a bit of responsibility for themselves and stay away from that sort of hazard.

Your 14 and 15 year olds certainly shouldn’t be going to places where their virtue is likely to be at risk.

Your discourse about the “majority of teenagers” you know sounds like a fairy story that suits your particular – might I say ‘unique’ – view of the situation. Or, it is something you read in a cheap woman’s’ magazine. There are no reasons for “sleeping around” bar the obvious: that youngsters these days want to do it.

You can call me “outdated”, “ignorant” and “narrow minded” as you shouted at me in block letters. If you think that my views are worse than those whose barnyard capers lead to “eating disorders”, and “suicide”, jolly good luck to you.

I don’t care what Tony Abbott did in has past: but he has a right to his opinion; the barnyard activities of loose young females and males have no interest for me apart from the fact that most of the current crop of young people, and their parents, do not have any real values at all. Sexual promiscuity is just one of the results of the loss of values in at least two generations.

The bottom line is that is apologists for lack of values like you, and the young ones without a shred of self-respect, are going to have to live with it for the rest of their lives.

Well Leigh, you have hit the nail right on the head, Abbott is entitled to his opinion, no matter which way the wind is blowing. So was Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussain etc, and from the tone of your half-baked comment, I suspect you might once have fawned upon them too.
He was saying that women should treasure their virginity, but he did not mention men. We can only conclude then that it's OK for us to chase a bit of skirt just like he did before he got married.
Reading your respose demonstrated to me why women believe we should have no part in discussions on these matters.

SS,

Time to invoke Godwin's Law.

BYW, Abbott lives in an all-female household with three daughters, so you would hardly expect him to be moralising about boys in response to a question directed at his personal life and personal affairs.

Your hysteria and that of others has set the advancement of women back decades. This is the modern equivalent of the witch-hunt and it does no-one, least of all the tabloid media hacks, any credit at all.

It is disconcerting how easy it is to manipulate the media to whip up the mob in Australia.