For Moms on Mother’s Day: The best way to express your motherhood? Stand by your man.

This is true: Everything that is wrong with everything is wrong because the remnants of Western Civilization have spent the last 200 years undermining fatherhood.

This is not a new argument around here, of course, but it’s still news to the larger culture. We seek to blame doctrines or education or Hollywood for the decadence of The West, but decay is what happens when men are robbed of their reasons for resisting it.

Love, sex, marriage and family are all initiated and sustained by men, and when women try to usurp these roles, all of civilization falls to chaos. If you want a civil libertarian society, you want male leadership. And if you won’t abide male leadership, you want tyranny by default.

This week Instapundit linked to a Federalist post insisting that mothers prevent statism, to which I reacted with vigor:

This could not be more false. Fatherless families are arms of the state. That’s why Marxism has made war on fatherhood from its inception. Only fathers, modern-day exponents of the Hoplite Greek ideal, can resist tyranny in all forms.

This is the subject of this week’s Church of Splendor homily: “Sorry, Moms: You’re just a wave, you’re not the water.”