This is an exciting time to be a far leftist in America, according to Paul Kengor, because more than half of Americans support “same-sex marriage,” which means the more subversive elements are well on their way to achieving one of their main goals.
“For the far left, they are absolutely beside themselves and thrilled, shocked – shocked! – but thrilled, exuberant, that they finally, for the first time ever, have mainstream public support for their ideas to take down the natural, traditional and biblical family,” Kengor said in a recent speech at the Heritage Foundation that aired on C-SPAN 2′s Book TV.
Kengor, a university professor and author of “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage,” is an expert on far-left movements. He said the tables have completely turned for that element.
“In the past their ideas put them under government surveillance in the countries that they were in, and people considered them crazy extremists. But now, for the first time ever, they have the support of the majority population,” Kengor explained. “And get this: The people who oppose them, especially for religious reasons, they are called the extremists, the fanatics, the outliers.”
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The far left has not always embraced “same-sex marriage,” according to Kengor. The “old guard” of the Communist Party USA never supported it. The “cultural Marxists” of the 1930s never pushed “same-sex marriage.” In fact, Kengor said communists made fun of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, calling him a cross-dresser or “transvestite.”
“When the left doesn’t like you, man, they can be the worst, biggest homophobes on the planet,” Kengor remarked.
But a few years ago, Kengor noticed American communists were suddenly very supportive of “same-sex marriage.” The Communist Party USA and the Young Communist League released a statement in June 2006 marking “Gay Pride Month.” People’s World, an official publication of CPUSA, became filled with articles staunchly supporting “gay” marriage.
“I was puzzled by that,” Kengor recalled. “I thought, ‘Wow, they’re not just mildly supportive of it; they’re intense advocates of this.’
“You are far more likely to find the colors of the rainbow flag at the website of People’s World than a red flag or a hammer and sickle.”
But Kengor says communist support of “same-sex marriage” makes perfect sense when one considers two of the Communist Party’s fundamental goals: abolition of the family and abolition of marriage.
“For them, same-sex marriage gives them the tool that they’ve been looking for for a couple hundred years, where at long last for the first time ever in the history of the far left, they’ve got a tool to reshape family and marriage that the mainstream population supports,” he said. “So this is perfect for them to do what they want to do.”
This does not mean “same-sex marriage” is a communist plot, Kengor clarified, nor does it mean the typical “same-sex marriage” supporter is a communist. It only means the “gay” marriage movement has been a gift to communists, helping them to upset traditional notions of family and marriage.
And it’s not just communists who are seizing this gift. Kengor pointed to BeyondMarriage.org, a broad coalition of leftists who wish to go beyond mere recognition of “same-sex marriage.” They want the government to legally recognize a wide array of non-traditional partnerships, households, kinship relationships and families – effectively scrapping the current male-female marriage model.
To Kengor, this epitomizes the slippery slope he fears legalized “gay” marriage will bring.
“My problem is far less with same-sex marriage than it is with the fact that what same-sex marriage does is it finally allows at a legal level the ability to break the mold of male-female marriage that has sustained society for thousands of years,” he said. “Once you break that mold, then you’re open to all sorts of new configurations and arrangements, of which same-sex marriage is just one.”
Kengor offered more examples showing same-sex marriage is not the endgame for many leftists. He quoted Paula Ettelbrick, the former legal director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund:
“Being queer means pushing the parameters of sex, sexuality and family, [and] transforming the very fabric of society. We must keep our eyes on the goals of providing true alternatives to marriage and of radically reordering society’s view of reality.”
And from Masha Gessen, a writer, author and “gay” rights activist: “It’s a no-brainer that [homosexuals] should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. … Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there – because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change.”
Kengor reminded his audience that one thing communists hate even more than marriage and family is religion, and same-sex marriage gives them the perfect cudgel with which to bludgeon religious believers.
“When they see a Kim Davis thrown in jail, they love that,” the professor said. “When they see … the Kleins in Oregon being fined for not wanting to be forced to make a cake for a wedding that they believe violates their religious beliefs, when they see them being shut down and attacked for that, the communists love it. I mean, they absolutely love this. This is what they’ve wanted to do.”
Kengor said there is one thing that unites typical “same-sex marriage” supporters today, the New Left Marxists of the 1960s, the cultural Marxists of the 1930s, and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels themselves – and it’s not that they’re all communists.
“What they all share in common is the notion that there is not a fixed, natural, traditional, biblical, absolute for marriage and family,” Kengor said. “They all believe, no matter where they are – communist, far leftist or not – that they themselves can redefine these things. They all share that in common.”
The professor marveled that such an ahistorical view has suddenly become the dominant opinion in America.
“If you support the concept of male-female-based marriage, which has been the position of 99.99999 percent of humanity for the last 2,000 years, you’re now on the ‘right,’ and so you shouldn’t be tolerated,” he remarked.
This shift toward public support of gay marriage equals a long, hard-fought victory for the far left, according to Kengor.
“I must say to the people on the far left, I congratulate you. I mean, this is a remarkable coup. This is a remarkable accomplishment. You’ve done it, you’ve pulled it off, and it’s been a long time coming, but you did it.”
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