Is the Italian family about to be replaced by The Messianic State?

LifeSiteNews ^ | 7-19-13 | Hilary White

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Can the family die, as a legal and social institution in Italy? Such a question could not even have been asked 40 years ago in this country, but in that time, the social and demographic landscape has changed dramatically, and the unthinkable is going on around us.

For some time I’ve been thinking about and reading various opinions on how the destruction of marriage as a legal and social institution in the formerly Christian West, has forwarded the aims of that nebulously defined, but apparently all-powerful, class of people I’ve come to call, simply, “the Statists” or “the Secularists.”

It’s not that I have had any doubts that the deadly combination of loosened divorce laws, new sexual mores, contraception and legalized abortion – and now “gay marriage” – has been deliberately concocted by these people or for what end. It is perfectly clear that the entire grand project of social reordering has been calculated and deliberate. What I’ve wanted to know is exactly how, by what mechanisms, the abolition of marriage has transferred real power – the ability to make efficacious decisions – from the lowest, smallest and most personal levels of society to the highest, remotest, and most impersonal.

Of course, the way to figure that out is to look at how the family itself has tended to diffuse power through a given society’s institutions, and consequently, away from a centralized state.

Of all the world’s cultures, Italy is possibly the best example of how the family creates a bulwark against the overweening power of the state.

Until very recently, the Italian social order, perhaps more than any other nation on earth, was almost totally oriented towards the family, and as a consequence it barely functioned as a centrally governed nation state.

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They also have scores of political parties.

I met a guy whose family were very connected to Napoleon, many years ago. It was during the 1992 election and this fellow said he couldn't believe that Clinton would go anywhere, "because George (H. W.) Bush, had excellent diplomatic and background plus wonderful experience."

This guy said it was almost impossible to elect a quality candidate in Italy because of having so many political parties, that we, in the U.S., have only two major parties, whereas in Italy, anyone can decide they want to run for office.

They get government money to do just that, so there is nothing to keep anyone from getting a bundle of money, just to run for office for any reason whatsoever, and they do so, taking votes away from viable candidates.