Sexual State

Roback Morse Jennifer

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The Sexual Revolution-and the breakdown of the Family-has brought misery to millions. In The Sexual State Jennifer Roback Morse shows that the Sexual Revolution did not just "happen" like a force of nature. Rather, it was deliberately created by "elites," harnessing the power of the State, allowing them inflict three false and calamitous ideologies-contraception, divorce, and gender-that have led to widespread and profound unhappiness, and worse.The ideas of the Sexual Revolution did not emerge from the lived experiences of ordinary people, the government has been imposing the morality of an out-of-touch elite class on the rest of us for decades.The Sexual State turns the conventional wisdom on its head to reveal how:The Sexual Revolution is and always has been a creation of the State Social issues are unified and can be understood as the outgrowth of a few simple (but gravely flawed) principles. The Sexual Revolution hides its totalitarian objectives behind seemingly modest demands. Children have and relational rights with respect to their parents...and how the Sexual State denies children these rights Social conservative ideas and traditional Catholic morality are getting clobbered. And the dirty secret that no one wants to acknowledge-until now!-is that the progressive social elites have rigged the system. Most people don't love abortion, or divorce, or single-parent families! Thankfully, Dr. Morse, and the Catholic have the answer. It is vital that those who would change the culture understand how we got there, otherwise, the countering tactics will remain impotent. In this masterful take-down of the Sexual Revolution and its promoters, Morse calls for a widespread adherence to the principles of the Church. Only then will our society recover from the misrule of the "elites" and the "managerial class."

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Ideology
• Central

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• Publié par: TAN Books
• Date de parution: 21 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781505112467
• Langue: English

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The Sexual State
THE SEXUAL STATE
How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why The Church Was Right All Along
Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina
Copyright © 2018 Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD
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Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Timeliness of Data
Part One: The Sexual State
1 The Misery of Modern Life
2 Conflict and Confusion: What Is the Sexual Revolution and How Are People Trying to Deal With It?
3 The Sexual State: Why the Sexual Revolution Needs the State
Interlude 1: On Class Warfare
Part Two: The Contraceptive Ideology
4 Creating the Contraceptive Ideology: Griswold v. Connecticut and Beyond
5 The Elites Create the Contraceptive Ideology: Alfred Kinsey, the Rockefellers, and Yale
6 Propaganda for the Contraceptive Ideology
7 What the Catholic Church Says About Contraception
Part Three: The Divorce Ideology
Interlude 2: On the Essential Public Purpose of Marriage
8 How the Divorce Ideology Harms Children (and Sometimes Adults)
9 Elite Origins of the Divorce Ideology
10 Propaganda Defending the Divorce Ideology
11 What the Catholic Church Says About Divorce
Part Four: The Gender Ideology
12 The Gender Ideology and the Managerial Class
13 Are Men and Women Different After All?
14 On the Controversy Over the Definition of Marriage
15 What the Catholic Church Says About Male and Female
Part Five: Conclusion
16 From the Ruling Class to the Leadership Class
17 From the Sexual State to a Civilization of Love: A Manifesto for the Family
Bibliography and Further Resources
Acknowledgments
I thank Sue Ellen Browder for numerous helpful conversations about structuring the book. I thank all my audiences who have listened to or read parts of this material while it was in preparation. I particularly thank the participants of the Ruth Institute Literary Salon, the students assembled by the Alliance Defending Freedom, and the audiences of the Acton University over the years.
I also thank my friends and colleagues at the Ruth Institute, who conversed with me about these concepts, literally for years. Associate Director Jennifer Johnson has been an especially helpful dialogue partner over the years.
I thank the Earhart Foundation for financial support specifically for the writing of this book. I am especially grateful to Ingrid Gregg, the president of the Earhart Foundation, for her support and patience.
I thank all the friends and benefactors of the Ruth Institute. Thanks to their support, I have been able to spend the time needed to develop these ideas, share them with others, and best of all, refine them to make them accessible to a wide audience. Without all of you posing questions, sharing heartfelt stories, writing encouraging notes, and sending your checks large and small, I could not have worked out the ideas in this book.
Finally, I would like to thank my husband, Rob Morse, for his love and support over the years of our journey of marriage and parenthood. He made it possible for me to leave academic life. This allowed me both full-time motherhood and independent thought. I could not have written this book without both of those gifts. Thank you, honey.
A Note on the Timeliness of Data
I supplement many of the arguments in this book with the results of scientific research. Some readers may wonder: is this data too old to be useful? Is this study really current? Let me address that concern here, at the beginning of the book, since this question may arise in multiple places throughout the text.
Ask yourself why you think the age of the study matters. If the study is referring to a technological fact, then the date on which the study was performed may indeed matter. When I make claims about the dangers associated with some forms of hormonal contraception, it is theoretically possible that the pharmaceutical companies have made improvements in their products. In that case, my claim would no longer stand.
If, instead, the study is referring to a social fact, the date of the study may or may not be relevant. Children need their parents. People bond with their sex partners and with their children. Men and women are different. These are facts of human nature. Technology will not and cannot change these facts.
You may think that enough social change will overwrite these facts. If you think so, the burden of proof is on you, not me. I think it is frankly immoral to undertake a program of social change which depends for its success on having enough power to change human nature.
If the data in question refers to one of these perennial questions of human nature, an older study is actually quite valuable. In fact, a very early study showing that women are troubled by their abortions or that children suffer from the divorce of their parents is a damning indictment of the Sexual Revolution. Those “old” and “obsolete” studies show that we knew from the beginning that something was not going according to ideological plan. We had reason to know that people were suffering. We ignored that evidence.
Finally, I hope people will be reading this book for many years. If you pick up this book ten years after it was written, none of the studies will be “current” if by “current” you mean “recent” or “the latest.” If my hypothesis is correct, the age of the studies will not be a problem. The events that transpire between the time of this writing and the time you read this book should confirm my proposition that the Sexual Revolution has been a big mistake and that certain people are hanging on to it for dear life, regardless of the evidence, including social science evidence.
P ART O NE
The Sexual State
C HAPTER 1
The Misery of Modern Life
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God .
—Saint Teresa of Calcutta, A Simple Path
T his book is about the ideology of the Sexual Revolution, the havoc it has created in the lives of its victims, and why we have been unable to make the connection between the two up until now. Once you see the connections, you’ll never be the same.
Let me introduce you to a few people who have been harmed by the Sexual Revolution. Elise is an actual little girl. Todd and Annette are composites of many people I have known. Perhaps you know similar people.
Elise is a six-year-old who lives with her grandmother and whose mother had a baby with someone other than Elise’s father .
“I hate Thanksgiving. I hate it when my mom comes with her new baby and her new boyfriend. I don’t feel like eating. Why do I have to live with my grandma? How come they are all fussing over the stupid new baby? Why doesn’t my mom love me? Why does that dumb new baby get to live with her and I don’t?
“I hate Christmas. I could just bust up this idiotic Christmas tree. Why can’t I go home with my mom? Why does that loser baby get to live with her mom and dad and I don’t? I don’t even have a dad, I guess. I hate all this ‘Baby’s First Christmas’ crap. I don’t care about any of the stupid presents. Where is my dad? Why doesn’t he love me? Why doesn’t my mom love me? Why doesn’t anybody want me?
“My grandma is nice, I guess, but I want my mom. I’m mad at my mom, but she isn’t here. She went back to her house with her boyfriend and their baby. Grandma is here. I’m going to make life hell for Grandma. I think I’ll break something. Maybe scream. Maybe throw stuff. Maybe Grandma will tell my mom to come and get me and take me back to her house to live with her where I belong.”
Elise can’t put all this into words of course. She expresses herself with her actions precisely because she cannot express her feelings with words. Her grandma (who is an acquaintance of mine) tells me that Elise is angry and acts out after every family holiday get together. For about a week after family holidays, she wets her bed every night, every time.
Todd is a thirty-something pipe fitter whose wife moved out and left him with three small children to care for.
“I love my kids. I’d do anything for them. My wife left the family without a word, without any warning, four years ago. I had no idea where she was and did not hear anything from her. Now she has come back. She says she has ‘found herself.’ She also ‘found’ a new boyfriend who has a better job than I do. The kids are happy to see her, but they don’t trust her love. They want to believe she will be there for them, but how can they believe it?
“She took me to court over custody. I