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Posted on 05/11/2015 3:42:57 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
In his book The Future of Marriage, David Blankenhorn, a liberal, gay-rights-supporting Democrat and self-professed “marriage nut,” offers this sociological principle: “People who professionally dislike marriage almost always favor gay marriage.” As a corollary, Blankenhorn adds: “Ideas that have long been used to attack marriage are now commonly used to support same-sex marriage.”
Blankenhorn provides almost irrefutable proof that this is the expressed agenda of many—if not most—professional advocates of same-sex marriage. Other scholars have noticed the same and have attempted to present the public with the facts about the less-than-hidden agenda to use homosexual rights to deinstitutionalize marriage and to separate sexual exclusivity from the concept of “monogamy.”
Since the agenda is an open secret, how has this anti-marriage program been able to advance to the level of public policy? And how did it happen so quickly?
To understand this seismic cultural shift we should turn to an obscure, decade-old political theory.
The Overton Window, developed in the mid-1990s by the late Joseph P. Overton, describes a “window” in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse. Overton believed that the spectrum included all possible options in a window of opportunity:
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Roe v. Wade.
Glenn Beck wrote a book about this.
Yep
They (liberal policies) destroyed the black family, now it is all out war on all families.
They hope we will become e pluribus pluribi!
An evil plan which will fail.
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A video about Marxist’s infiltration and subversion of America and a key entity, The Frankfurt School (= Columbia U.). Long but very historically enlightening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uHbLE8n6xE
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