Sex as the Opiate of the People
I will be quoting from a book entitled, "War Against the
Family" by William D. Gairdner. Page 29 under the subtitle, 'Sex
as the Opiate of the People'.
"The Swedish National Association for Sexual Education once
declared: 'Our aim is to encourage liberation through sex.' This
pronouncement proved indeed to be one of the cleverest, most
successful methods ever used to create acceptance of the policies
of the top-down State and lure the populace into a kind of civil
docility. In his book The New Totalitarians, Roland Huntford
details the insidious manner in which a populace can be duped by
the exchange of countless personal, political, and moral freedoms
for the illusory right to sexual freedom. He quotes this chilling
statement made by Mr. Ingvar Carlson, Sweden's former minister of
education: 'The state is concerned with mortality from a desire
to change society.'(8) (Watch out for teachers bearing condoms!)
"The key to this formula is that if the welfare State can
remove all traditional, sexual morality from the thinking of the
people - especially through the education system, which intrudes
right into our homes - it can undermine all the less powerful
moral precepts that otherwise make the work of the State too
difficult. That's why, as Huntford reminds us, Aldous Huxley said
in Brave New World that 'as political and economic freedom
diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.' The
architects of statism know that if the sense of privacy, and the
historically deep moral feelings associated with romantic love
and sex, can be removed from the function of sex, then removing
taboos and traditions from other areas of human life will be
relatively easy. Once the State invades into the banal, then what
is public becomes paramount over what was private. The equation
carried in the minds of those - especially the young - who have
been through this 'morals stripping' process goes like this: 'If
the State was right about something as powerful as sex, it must
be right about everything else, too.' And because planners are
threatened by the private role of the family in all this, sexual
matters for 're-education.' The tenor or instruction, Huntford
writes, 'is that morality is irrelevant, and that attitudes
learned at home are to be discarded.' Huntford shows how Sweden
is one of the first examples in history of established
authorities taking sides with the youth of the nation against
their own elders. (They have a common enemy!) It's an ideological
offensive, with sex education serving as the most damaging
missile. This technique is used in Canada and the United States
as well, with a scary intensity..
"The objective is to teach that sex is a mere physical need
- like eating, or moving one's bowels, opines another Swedish
education official. '[I]t's importance has to be reduced... What
we want is that children talk it over and come together
rationally.... Early sex is encouraged, if desired, as long as
the partners are 'protected.' Masturbation is officially
encouraged from 13 years onward, 'with or without the reading of
pornography'; marriage and divorce are now by simple contract and
makes no difference legally or economically, to a family (Sweden
has the lowest marriage and highest 'couple dissolution' rate in
the Western world);(9) condoms, abortion, and other forms of
contraceptives are officially sanctioned and encouraged (even
though sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy have
risen there in inverse proportion to such programs, as in every
other country where the so-called 'sexual revolution' has been
introduced).(10) In short, regardless of what some may think are
good intentions, in their consequences such programs are not
about sex or freedom. Rather, they serve as a key weapon in the
effort of progressive State to break down traditional morality,
privacy, and the family. Once every citizen accepts the illusion
of sexual freedom (always in conformity with official State
policy and practice, of course), he or she can leave everything
else up to the State. 'Give me orgasm, or give me death' is the
new rallying cry of the liberated citizen."
(8) Roland Huntford, The New Totalitarians (New York: Stein and
Day, 1972), p.326.
(9) David Popenoe, Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline
in Modern Societies (New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1988). p. 173.
(10) Jessica Pegis, Ian Gentles, L.L. de Veber, eds., Sex
Education: A Review of the Literature from Canada, the United
States, Britain, and Sweden (Toronto: Human Life Research
Institute, 1986)."
War Against The Family
by William D. Gairdner
Can't you see this happening in America today?! President[s]
Clinton and groups such as Planned Parenthood are leading the
charge. If they get what they want, the kids are going to be
their kids, the state's and the government's. The parents can
support them financially but the government is going to 'take
care of them sexually and mentally. And when they are finished
with them and the kids are washed up then they will let the
parents have them back so they can hang them out to dry. The bill
to straighten them out by then will be super expensive and I am
not talking financially. In the money area, there won't be enough
to help them.
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