COMMUNIST GOALS (1963 Congressional Record)
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. (This includes marriage vows - they are not loyalty to the state, but to each other)
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16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. (Must promote same-sex marriages)
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. (Current hipster/emo/goth subcultures)
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25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. (Replace it with Executive Orders and rulings from judicial activists)
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31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
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40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
Of all these posts, you’re the only other one who sees it: this is an attempt to destroy marriage outright. Knowing they can’t just ban it, they propose a minimum age couched in warm fuzzies which even FReepers respect. The real intent is to move tips minimum age to where a huge number will procreate out of wedlock, normalizing the absence of marriage. Between vacating the intent of marriage via compulsory recognition of “gay marriage”, and marginalizing it by pushing it off, it will fade into irrelevancy.