Socializing Society By Eliminating The Family
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.
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc. The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
His weblog is THE VIEW FROM 1776
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Thomas E. Brewton, who maintains this blog, had the great good fortune in the middle 1950s at Louisiana State University to study under two of the 20th century's great minds: Eric Voegelin in political science, and Walter Berns in Constitutional law. These two professors opened the door of education to a glimpse of Western civilization and of American political and social thought as they had been before socialism was unconstitutionally established as the official national religion of the United States in 1933. | More from Thomas Brewton
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October 24th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
It is fascinating to me that civilization managed to have families and flourish for thousands of years without the control of the state. Marriage as a legal institution has only been in existence since 1753, and the net result in modern life is that state controlled marriage is a legal morass that swallows families whole and makes a profit in the process.
Even if by sheer luck, Sunstein got this one right. State regulated marriage is nothing less than state control of the most intimate and private parts of our lives, and as such it is an abomination to basic liberties.
It was, unfortunately, the control of the state run amok that has lead many a man to the MRM and the pages of this publication, after being stripped of everything because the state had such unreasonable control over their private lives.
October 25th, 2009 at 5:00 am
State meddling in marriage is why the divorce rate is so high. They took a mutually beneficial relationship between two people and created a situation where one of them benefits from the collapse of that relationship. And children suffer quite terribly, despite much of the insanity being done in the name of “what’s best for the children.”
Family law and the divorce industry have done for marriage what unions have done for the workplace. While some have benefited justly, the more common result is that it provides entitlements to one party in the relationship so their benefits are largely independent of their contributions.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:31 am
“It is fascinating to me that civilization managed to have families and flourish for thousands of years without the control of the state.”
That’s a good point. At some of our NCFMLA rallies here in Los Angeles I’ve asked people, “How in the world was the human race ever able to make it to 2009, without the intrusion of family courts and anti-family, radical feminist influence in government? What’s going on that we suddenly need governments big nose stuck so obtrusively into family business?
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October 27th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I recently had an interesting discussion with a friend from another country (European) who has lived here almost 20 years. He told me that divorce is rare in his home country relative to the U.S. at ~10 % (or less), and that he and his wife (also from the same country) find our political correctness to be incredible (as in incredibly strange). He told me that both he and his wife find the average American woman to be unbearable, pampered, self-centered, and never (ever) held accountable, …. and generally unlikeable. They both are thinking of moving back home (the only thing keeping them here is the dollar/euro exchange rate).
I’m guessing that many (men and women) who come to America from somewhere else have similar perceptions.
What I find amazing is that the average man in this country cannot see what people from other countries can see. Or, they tolerate what those from other countries would not tolerate in their own countries. The men’s right’s movement in this country should be overflowing and the political class should be responding by now. Come on…it’s been over 40 years of this b.s.. It’s time to put an end to it all.