Posted on 10/28/2009 8:40:25 AM PDT by IbJensen
Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, proposes to abolish traditional marriage as a state-sponsored institution.
As many feared, same-sex marriage may become the wedge to destroy the religious and political institutions of marriage and family.
Each new day brings to light additions to the torrent of liberal-progressive-socialist attacks upon the basic social and political institutions of Western civilization and its foundation in Judeo-Christian morality. Reducing marriage to no more than issuance of a civil certificate acknowledging the partnering of any two people is exactly what the Soviet Union did. The aim was, and is under Obama’s New New Deal socialism, to break down lingering vestiges of individual moral responsibility and to supplant them with servility under the supposedly classless socialist political state.
Sunstein’s proposal to degrade marriage to a civil license to any two people desiring to become partners is in direct opposition to a principal reason for the state’s sanctioning marriage.
Historically the state was concerned primarily with the welfare of children born from a marriage. Fathers, as well as mothers, were to have responsibility for the welfare and acculturation of their children. The plague of illegitimate births and single-parent families is only a foretaste of what is to come if marriage is abolished as a state-sanctioned institution that gives legal rights to children and parents. The dissolution of marriage is inseparably connected to rampant drug abuse and violent crime to which single-parent children all too frequently fall victim.
Note that sexual promiscuity was made a social norm in the 1960s and 70s by liberal-progressive-socialists like the violent and criminal Weatherman underground. That organization was led by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, President Obama’s close Chicago friends, supporters, and advisors. Professor Sunstein is merely following in the tracks of Weatherman, which counseled members to arm themselves, bring the Vietnam War home, and bomb police stations, banks, and military installations, while “icing” a few police (aka pigs).
Breaking up the family as the primary social and educational element of society also opens the way for the political state to push parents aside and proselytize young children for the secular religion of socialism. This was the intention of the Hitler Youth organization, which was to bypass traditional religion in the home and teach young people to betray parents who were not fully supportive of Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) program.
In a larger context, no political state can endure without stable families, which both produce the children necessary to perpetuate the body politic, and serve as the primary educational institution for all citizens. It was in the home that children traditionally learned the principles of fair play, courtesy, and respect for their elders and playmates, and the traditions and customs that foster patriotism and make each political society a distinct and enduring body.
It will never end as long as America-hating communists and their fellow travelers are running and ruining the country.
The presence of Cass Sunstein in the White House tells you what a commie rat-nest Obama has built there. HE HAS BIG PLANS FOR AMERICA.
Sunstein also believes that the Government has the right to confiscate your organs for transplant whether or not you want to donate. This man is dangerous. No surprise he’s an Obama appointee.
Everything is political with the left -always has been - always will be. To quote John Lennon - imagine a world with no leftists - its easy if you try.
If we’re rendered incapable of de-throwning this commie clown we can thank the Republicrat Party!
Eliminating the family isn’t exactly what they want. They just want the state to be able to control any family unit it sees fit to control.
The left has been patient and is reaping the “reward”. We know have about 2 generations of dunderheads educated by a socialist public school system.
- We’ve allowed mutliculturalism and diversity to create a society that has elements that simply can’t coexist.
- We’ve femminized our boys so that they lack drive, passion and competitiveness.
- We’ve indoctrinated the public school products so that they’re accepting of communism, and unable to think critically.
I fear for what’s coming in America.
This is an aggregious assault on the family and on the individual states in our union. The Federal Government does not have the power to dictate the definition of the marriage to the States. The Goal of Socialists is to eliminate families, churches, localities, states etc. They want a completely centralized state where traditional insitutions like Church and Family are replaced by the state. We are all to worship and obey the state above all else. Families are a threat to absolute statism because people will always be loyal to their blood before a government.
Thank you. Excellent article.
As Hillary stated...”It takes a village to raise a child.” That leaves out the parents. I wouldn’t want to raise a child in this country today. I really feel for the young adults that are trying to raise a child and can’t afford private schools.
US Supreme Court ended school prayer in 1962. This country has been in a moral slide to depravity ever since.
Actually we’ve been running this experiment since 1965.
The “Great Society” has done a superb job of destroying the black family, producing a whole generation of illiterate criminals and welfare clients.
Ever since liberals started to advance abortion and gay marriage, their clear intent has been to destroy the traditional American family and its values and principles and beliefs.
ozero told the country that he would be defined by the people he surrounds himself with. Or something to that effect.
People want to believe the sonofabitch is a Christian or a Moslem, but he's too narcissistic to be an adherent to any religion since he's sold out to himself.
I'm beginning to think he may be so self-absorbed that he isn't even a committed commie, just using the most vile means to promote himself as indispensable.
Barry Obama doesn't care if his rule destroys the Republic, he's using the Cloward-Piven strategy to remake America in a vague image of federal oligarchy hallmarked by redistribution of wealth, and he's too stupid to realize he is destroying wealth which he will subsequently never get to redistribute. The destruction of American economic resilience is a clear pathway for George Soros to short our currency for a few more billions.
A truly stupid affirmative action fraud elected to the presidency is not a way to remain the sovereigns of a Constitutional Republic ... and this sonofabitch in the White House is more than happy to exploit the stupidity of the dumbed down voters his community organizers and union thuggery can lure to the polls in their ignorance.
Yep....free cell phones, free housing, free food, free health coverage....you name it. We have brain washed these people and, today, they don’t have the sense to figure it out. When the working class is destroyed, there will be no more free stuff. Lock and load.
Actually marraige in the West predates Christianity by a millenium at least, and existed long before the Jews had much contact with the West. Marraige was firmly embraced in both ancient Rome and ancient Greece in pretty much the same form it is now.
It is interesting that while homosexuality was frowned upon as a vice by the Romans it was tacitly accepted as a facet of human existence. Still there is no record of homosexuals being allowed to marry one another.
It’s not so much they want to eliminate the family. They want to eliminate the male head of the family.
Paternalism is the enemy — maternalism is the answer.
Cultural Marxism 101.
There is evil in every society. The key is to continue to stand up against it.
BUMP for the traditional family.
Astute observation, as usual. Women relate to government on an emotion-laden level, so they more malleable to the oligarchic maneuvering. BUT, the current commie-in-chief has awakened the mothers of America who are frightened for their children’s future being indentured to the democrat federal masters’ debt loads. Monetizing the debt will not fix it, this time, and that by design to accomplish the Cloward-Piven strategy.
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