By Paul Bremmer
Watch out, America, you're headed down a slippery slope now that the Supreme Court has declared same-sex "marriage" a right.
So says the author of a new book on marriage, the family and the radical left.
"What's happened is they haven't just redefined [marriage] as being male-male or female-female, but simply by saying that marriage is no longer what it's always been, which is male and female … by what standard can you stop all these other redefinitions?" asked Paul Kengor, Ph.D.
"So I think 50 years from now, sure, you're going to see polygamous marriages, you're going to see intrafamily marriages, especially if your standard is simply that love should win."
Kengor, author of "Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage," doesn't believe liberals and progressives when they say they would never support polygamous or intrafamily marriages. He said progressivism is built only on the idea of "progress," which does not have a defined ending.
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“The only thing the progressive knows is that they're always changing," Kengor told WND in an interview. "What kind of marriage will they support in 30 years? They honestly can't tell you. They'll tell you when they get there."
Kengor recently read a news story about the world's first three-male "marriage" ceremony, performed in Thailand. He scrolled down to the reader comments to see if anyone had admitted that "gay marriage" had indeed led to polygamy, just as conservatives had warned.
Instead, he found numerous commenters rejoicing at the three-way wedding and castigating anyone who questioned the right of the three men to marry.
Kengor believes that type of marriages will eventually pop up in America, and progressives will embrace them with arms wide open.
"That will be exactly the position when they get there," the author predicted. "When it happens, they'll approve it and they'll call us names, the most hateful names, for not supporting it. That's how progress progresses."
Same-sex marriage has gained tremendous momentum in American culture. President Obama supports it, as does virtually the entire Democratic Party; growing numbers of Republicans, particularly young ones; most of Hollywood; numerous name-brand companies; and an increasing share of Americans overall. Now, the majority of the Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional. With so much momentum behind same-sex marriage, Kengor does not believe it can ever be realistically overturned. That does not mean, however, that proponents of traditional marriage should give up the fight.
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"I think at this point with same-sex marriage being a constitutional right," Kengor said, "the battle is going to need to shift, and it's going to be a lot like Roe v. Wade, where constitutionally the issue is settled, and you're probably not ever going to overturn it constitutionally, so the matter especially for churches and other groups will be a matter more of one-on-one contact, working with different people, talking to people who have same-sex attraction."
Regarding possible government coercion of churches, Kengor said: "I don't know if churches will ever be forced to perform same-sex marriage, but the pressure is going to be enormous. And not just legally, but I think culturally, really even more so culturally."
Nor does Kengor know if churches that refuse to perform same-sex marriage will lose their tax-exempt status. But he still believes the Supreme Court's ruling is a game-changer for Christians, because it will attempt to infringe upon God's law.
"For the religious believer, the state can do what it wants and call a cat a dog if it wants to," the author noted. "Christians and religious believers take heart there is a natural, eternal, divine law out there that the state cannot supersede. So no matter what the state says, the state is not the arbiter of truth. The state simply represents opinion, court opinion, majority opinion, but what the state dictates isn't always true."
In fact, Kengor believes the decline of Christianity and rise of secularism in America is the chief reason why same-sex marriage has gained so much support. A recent Pew Research Center poll found the percentage of Christians in America is declining, while percentages of atheists, agnostics and those unaffiliated with any religious belief system are rising. Secularists and nonbelievers have no loyalty to the traditional definition of marriage, Kengor noted.
"The more people reject the idea that there is a single, fixed set state for marriage and family – the sort of Judeo-Christian male-female model, the idea of natural, traditional, biblical marriage – once you have a whole group of people that believes there's no such thing as an absolute standard for marriage, then they feel free to redefine it however they want," he said.
Kengor pointed to 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who wrote, "If God does not exist, then everything is permitted."
"That's exactly right," Kengor agreed. "When you move an absolute ruler with an absolute set or an absolute fixed idea for marriage out of the equation, everything is permissible, everything is possible, and that's where we’re headed."
The decline of faith in God may not be an accident, either. In his book "Takedown," Kengor discusses the new tack Marxists took in the early 1900s in their war against the West.
"A number of Marxists realized that they were not going to take down the West; they were not going to get the communist worldview implemented through traditional economics," he revealed. "They realized that when communist economies were put up against free market economies, they were gonna get blown away every time. It wasn't close."
Therefore, in the early 1920s a group of Marxists established what would become the Frankfurt School of cultural Marxism. Leaders included such men as Georg Lukacs, Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse.
"What they believed was if you're really gonna take down the West, if you're gonna take down these traditions from marriage, family and everything else, you had to do it through culture, not economics," Kengor explained. "You had to do it through culture, you had to do it through sex, and you had to do it through education, and especially higher education."
Many cultural Marxists did indeed flock to the universities to teach. Columbia University, in particular, became a hotbed of Marxist thought, as Kengor details in his book. But the Marxists spread their tentacles far and wide, catching many young Americans across multiple generations in their grasp.
"You ask anybody – anybody who's older, who's over 40, over 50 – ask anybody in their 20s when they started to come to this support of same-sex marriage," Kengor challenged. "They will tell you it was in college. This is an idea out of the universities."
With America's college students firmly in the grasp of cultural Marxism, it only took one or two generations before the ideology of the Frankfurt School manifested itself in the New Left of the 1960s, and in malcontents like Kate Millett, Mark Rudd and Bill Ayers.
Kengor believes Marxists of the past, from Marx and Engels through Reich and Marcuse, would beam with satisfaction at the widespread acceptance "gay marriage" enjoys today. He said they understood they didn't need to implement Marxism by the traditional economic means as long as they could subjugate the culture through their beliefs about sex and morality.
"You can see that the cultural Marxist view of things on marriage and family and sexuality and gender and the fluidity of sexuality and gender – we're much closer to that today than we are any form of economic Marxism, and that's the really fascinating thing," Kengor observed.
The author said he doesn't believe the United States will ever become a communist country in the economic sense, with the abolition of private property and the right of inheritance. But the country has already been overrun by cultural Marxists, who carried forth the banner of communism in a stealthier way.
"If you want to be stunned and frankly kind of depressed, read my chapters in "Takedown” on the cultural Marxists, because those guys were prophetic, and I’m almost tempted to congratulate them,” Kengor mused. “By going after culture, culture, culture, sex, sex, sex, education, education, education, they nailed it. They nailed it. That was the key to the takedown."
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