DAVID CAMERON announced yesterday that the heads of the 16 Commonweath governments have agreed to change the 300-year-old rules of succession and give girls equal claim to the throne. The proposed elimination of male primogeniture is highly significant in its symbolism. It does not signal “equality” for women, but further chaos. It is one more sign that modern society is bent on deflecting men from their role as provider and head of the family. Britain, the land of the single mother, is now naturally the land of the dispossessed king.

According to The Times, Cameron stated:

Attitudes have changed fundamentally over the centuries and some of the out-dated rules – like some of the rules of succession – just don’t make sense to us any more.

The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic – this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we have become.

Though the change has been presented in the press as a fait accompli, it still requires legislative approval, including revisions to the 1689 Bill of Rights. The prime minister also announced that monarchs will be allowed to marry Roman Catholics.

Cameron is correct that attitudes have changed. The problem is, human nature has not changed. Men are, and always will be, more suited to public leadership. In the future, an elder daughter will be in the awkward position of having greater title to the throne than her younger brother, who will naturally have a greater penchant to rule and a greater desire to rule. In effect, this measure makes the monarchy all the more irrelevant, which is perhaps just as well given its abysmal decline.

Changing the rules of succession will not mean Britain is ruled equally by women. Men will always disproportionately hold positions of extrafamilial power. Even now, after many decades of aggressive egalitarianism, men overwhelmingly outnumber women in the highest ranks of government and business. But, the male role as head of the family is what is truly at stake. Without men as family heads, monogamy necessarily withers. And without the institution of monogamy, democracy cannot remain viable.

Western leaders are doing all they can to destroy the traditions upon which freedom rests. For the elite, these acts of destruction mean comparatively little, at least in the short term. But for those at the lower strata of society, they are nothing short of catastrophic.

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