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Originally posted by RevelationGeneration
Originally posted by Expat888
smart young man and he says it all very well..
he proves a point that have long known to be true.
hope that people will learn from his words and from the good job his parents did raising him.
He does not prove a point at all. Making a good speech doesn't automatically make him right on this social issue. He is a rare case out of many homosexually raised kids that have grown up to be really messed up. He's lucky that his parents didn't try to impose there sexual immorality on him. Which is what happens in most cases of raising a child with gay parents...edit on 1-12-2011 by RevelationGeneration because: (no reason given)
Influential intellectual roots of anti-family and anti-religious efforts can be found in the writings of Karl Marx's collaborator, the German philosopher Friedrich Engels. [3] Engels, in his vision of state ownership as the means of production and the ultimate triumph of the proletariat, was keenly aware that two institutions would stand in the way of his communist vision: the family and organized religion. He understood that in order for the international communist vision to come to fruition, the natural primacy of family and religion in society must be undermined.
Engel's Materialism and Attack on the Family Engels saw the establishment of the family as an aberration of the proper order of history, with its collapse being a necessary element in the coming communist world order. As he said in his preface to the first edition of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: "The old society, built on groups based on ties of sex, bursts asunder in the collision of the newly-developed social classes."
Engels' rationale for the collapse of the family can be found in his materialist view of man, in whom he understands all interactions to be products of the class struggle, and in which marriage plays a central role. He makes clear why monogamy (marriage) must be eliminated:
The first class antagonism which appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamian (marriage), and the first class oppression with that of the female sex by the male.
Thus the most fundamental of all "class struggles" (Engels' overriding preoccupation) is that between male and female, in which marriage effects the subordination of woman by man.
The Family Undermined in USSR: Engels' vision of the collapse of the family and religion found a ready application in the Soviet Union. As one Russian observer in the 1920s noted, "When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other 'bourgeois' institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it." [8] Thus they instituted radical changes in the marriage laws, such as divorce-at-will, the prohibition of religious marriage, and the abolition of illegitimacy laws, as well as more violent programs like Josef Stalin's dekulakization, in which the "rich peasants"("kulaks"), noted for their resilient family structures and religious piety, were "liquidated" as a class. Likewise the Russian Orthodox Church was systematically undermined from within.
the 2006 advocacy statement "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage." [11] This document, signed by over 300 scholars and activists from universities like Georgetown, Columbia, Princeton and Yale, debuted in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times and calls for a legal regime in which the question is not one of heterosexual vs. homosexual marriage, but rather one in which marriage as an idea has been abolished. [12] In particular, the authors seek:
•Legal recognition for a wide range of relationships, households and families - regardless of kinship or conjugal status.
•Access for all, regardless of marital or citizenship status, to vital government support programs including but not limited to health care, housing, Social Security and pension plans, disaster recovery assistance, unemployment insurance and welfare assistance.
•Separation of church and state in all matters, including regulation and recognition of relationships, households and families.
•Freedom from state regulation of our sexual lives and gender choices, identities and expression. [13]
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
A different view of things
Influential intellectual roots of anti-family and anti-religious efforts can be found in the writings of Karl Marx's collaborator, the German philosopher Friedrich Engels. [3] Engels, in his vision of state ownership as the means of production and the ultimate triumph of the proletariat, was keenly aware that two institutions would stand in the way of his communist vision: the family and organized religion. He understood that in order for the international communist vision to come to fruition, the natural primacy of family and religion in society must be undermined.
Engel's Materialism and Attack on the Family Engels saw the establishment of the family as an aberration of the proper order of history, with its collapse being a necessary element in the coming communist world order. As he said in his preface to the first edition of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: "The old society, built on groups based on ties of sex, bursts asunder in the collision of the newly-developed social classes."
Engels' rationale for the collapse of the family can be found in his materialist view of man, in whom he understands all interactions to be products of the class struggle, and in which marriage plays a central role. He makes clear why monogamy (marriage) must be eliminated:
The first class antagonism which appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamian (marriage), and the first class oppression with that of the female sex by the male.
Thus the most fundamental of all "class struggles" (Engels' overriding preoccupation) is that between male and female, in which marriage effects the subordination of woman by man.
The Family Undermined in USSR: Engels' vision of the collapse of the family and religion found a ready application in the Soviet Union. As one Russian observer in the 1920s noted, "When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other 'bourgeois' institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it." [8] Thus they instituted radical changes in the marriage laws, such as divorce-at-will, the prohibition of religious marriage, and the abolition of illegitimacy laws, as well as more violent programs like Josef Stalin's dekulakization, in which the "rich peasants"("kulaks"), noted for their resilient family structures and religious piety, were "liquidated" as a class. Likewise the Russian Orthodox Church was systematically undermined from within.
the 2006 advocacy statement "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage." [11] This document, signed by over 300 scholars and activists from universities like Georgetown, Columbia, Princeton and Yale, debuted in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times and calls for a legal regime in which the question is not one of heterosexual vs. homosexual marriage, but rather one in which marriage as an idea has been abolished. [12] In particular, the authors seek:
•Legal recognition for a wide range of relationships, households and families - regardless of kinship or conjugal status.
•Access for all, regardless of marital or citizenship status, to vital government support programs including but not limited to health care, housing, Social Security and pension plans, disaster recovery assistance, unemployment insurance and welfare assistance.
•Separation of church and state in all matters, including regulation and recognition of relationships, households and families.
•Freedom from state regulation of our sexual lives and gender choices, identities and expression. [13]
www.frc.org...
So in other words, hello Marxist Statism and goodbye traditional family values
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by Owner777
You are a prime example of the perfect Marx/Engels Statist antagonist.
Are you angry that the Romans displaced paganism with Christmas?
The Roman census has nothing to do with the subject of Marxist hatred of the family. But thanks for the lecture on paganism.
edit on 1-12-2011 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)edit on 1-12-2011 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jimnuggits
What if God wants us to make less people, but have someone to love all the same?
What would that look like?
Oh yeah, the gays.
Family means committed love.
Who I choose to have in my family is not your business, unless I chose you, and you chose me.
What a beautiful world it will be when we all decide to do that, together.
Originally posted by joecool7734
This is one case of good parenting no one can judge anyone or anything upon that. All I have to say to this is some parents do very good and some don't straight or not. And that is my straight up answer. peace out...
hmmm it is impossible in nature for two people of the same sex to make a child in the first place so sexuality does come in to it ... fact
Originally posted by Owner777
Originally posted by joecool7734
This is one case of good parenting no one can judge anyone or anything upon that. All I have to say to this is some parents do very good and some don't straight or not. And that is my straight up answer. peace out...
I happen to agree with you give parents the ability to raise kids on their abilities to do so not on their sex and sexuality