Are Australian churches too cowardly to suggest it is in the best interest of children to have married parents? That's the impression I received two years ago when I questioned the wisdom of naming Pat Rafter as Australian of the Year - a tennis icon about to become an unmarried father. Midst the flood of responses, churchgoers wrote in large numbers about the stony silence of their churches on the subject. One woman mentioned she had just been to Mass, where her priest had given a long sermon praising Rafter and never mentioned the marriage issue. "Are we now too...