How The False Promises Of The Sexual Revolution Created A New Religion

The Washington Post published a series of articles in the days before Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Texas federal judge, ruled on a lawsuit to revoke U.S. government approval for abortion drug Mifepristone. front-page He is the subject of a hit article. It is easy to understand that Ann E. Marimow (Charlotte Kitchener) wrote the article in order to damage Kacsmaryk’s credibility. The article portrays Kacsmaryk as a religious fanatic whose rulings are influenced largely by his devotion to religion. “biblical scripture” (Their bizarre phrase, and not mine) instead of a careful, impartial consideration of American law.

It isn’t surprising that the WaPo, a dogmatically pro abortion WaPo, would publish such a piece. But what about the rest? Is The curious thing about the WaPo article is that they had so few supporting evidence to back it. Kacsmaryk’s evidence includes the fact that he was born into a Christian family and served on the board for Christian Homes and Family Services. “prays often … and is constantly rereading the Bible.” Avoid Bible-reading (excuse, me) “biblical scripture”-reading) federal judges!

This WaPo piece not only proves the embarrassing religiosity of leftist corporate media media (the piece was edited at least three times for goodness’ sake), but also highlights the pervasiveness and influence of the sexual revolution in our culture, especially the secular elites.

In that sense, the response of the Washington Post — and, for that matter, all institutions of the secular left — to the fallout from the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Mary Eberstadt’s book, “The New Mary Eberstadt” is further supported by ruling.Adam and Eve, Revisited After the Pill.” Eberstadt claims that not only has the American sexual revolution caused havoc in politics, society, and churches, but that it has also made Christianity a simulacrum, with its own dogmas.

The Exploitation Of Women

One of the most arresting substories of Eberstadt’s book is how the sexual revolution — and its celebration of contraceptive sex — resulted in the exact opposite Its promoters’ promises. It didn’t reduce abortion, fatherlessness, out-ofwedlock children, divorce, or the number of births it caused, but rather, it made them more common. Eberstadt refers to a 2015 study showing that contraception encourages sexual encounters that would not have been possible without it.

“In other words, when couples use contraception, they agree to sex when pregnancy would be a problem,” According to the study’s authors. It is not surprising that abortions are a frequent result of this choice.

Contraception is as common as it gets “empowered” Women can delay or omit pregnancy. This has allowed men to avoid the responsibility of fatherhood, according to Mark Regnerus, a sociolog. “Cheap Sex” In his 2017 book. Economist Timothy Reichart in 2010 Data examined This was the case starting in the 1960s. “the contraceptive revolution has resulted in a massive redistribution of wealth and power from women and children to men.”

How? Create a “prisoner’s dilemma” Women are encouraged to participate in these activities “enter the sex market and remain there for as long as possible,” Despite the fact that they will ultimately be unhappy, it will increase their chances of getting divorced, infidelity and even desire to have an abortion.

Promiscuous sex, pornography and other sexual identities were promoted by the sexual revolution to lift women out of patriarchal norms. They had been kept in solitary, soul-crushing nuclear families. However, promiscuous and pornography have led to more women being exploited. This is due to a consumerist mentality in which sex and sexual encounters are seen as commodities. It’s difficult to imagine the Me Too crisis in the absence of the pill.

Most bizarrely, women are also being shamed for decrying the entry of men into previously exclusive spheres: women’s sports, women’s bathrooms, and even women’s gymnastics. Pete Buttigieg’s case and Chasten his partnerHospital beds for mothers-to-be Women who speak out, even prominent feminists, such as J.K. Rowling And Martina NavratilovaAre accused of “transphobia” Professionally suffer.

Devastating Our Society

The sexual revolution taught women to fear their fertility and to see children as a threat, putting them in a constant war with their bodies. It also caused havoc in the lives of others. All Members of the society.

The likelihood of adverse outcomes for children is increased by the fact that 40% of American children do not have a biological father. Taxpayers pay billions Thousands of dollars. Eberstadt describes the federal government as “the sexual revolution”. “angel investor of family dysfunction.”

America’s income inequality has increased due to the sexual revolution. In their 2014 study, sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox & Robert I. Lerman. “For Richer, for Poorer,” The median income growth of families with children would have been 44 percent higher if the United States had maintained the 1980 level of married parenthood. A third of the rise in inequality in family incomes since 1979 can also be attributed the fall in stability in married families.

The sexual revolution has many disorienting and alienating results. Eberstadt explains:

Abortion, fatherlessness, divorce, single parenthood, childlessness, the imploding nuclear family, the shrinking extended family — all these phenomena have something in common. They all involve human subtraction. Each one of these has the effect to reduce the number of people we can refer to as our own and those we are related to.

American churches also feel this subtraction force. According to a sociological study, the churches of mainline denominations who endorsed contraception experienced the greatest decline between 1900 and 1975. Our churches have suffered as well, with the decline of our families. “The West is secularizing, in part, because so many are no longer marrying, because divorce has become a common fact of life, and because many are failing to have children.”

Identitarianism is The New Religion

This has led to what we might call an “an” “identity vacuum”: No longer shaped by their families and churches, individuals look elsewhere for beliefs and groups to give them an identity and meaning — typically the dynamic identities of sex, gender, and race. Modern culture’s identity is no longer based on biological, natural givenness such as mothers and fathers, or children and sons, but rather by impermanent categories. Choose to live in, and often those with the highest capital in our social economy that grieves and victimhood.

Eberstadt points out that the original language of Black Lives Matter’s website specifically excluded fathers from its understandings of family structures, and that many leading organizations have adopted this approach. “anti-racists” — Robin DiAngelo, Ijeoma Oluo, Reni Eddo-Lodge — are all products of broken families. Oregon 2020 protesters can also be said to be from broken families. Portland has long been known for its replacements of traditional families with. “street families.”

The radical dogmatism displayed by new groups that emerged from the sexual revolution is evident in the decision made by 2017 Women’s March on Washington not to invite pro-life groups. “This happened because, within this new church of secularism, pro-life women, and men, amount to heretics: despised transgressors of a religious community’s core teaching and norms,” writes Eberstadt.

She refers to the hagiography secular saints, which includes Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sanger. Its proselytizing power is remarkable: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $120million in 2015 to reduce the fertility of “120 million women and girls in the poorest countries by 2020.”

Seen in this light, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s 2017 comment to Judge Amy Coney Barrett — “the dogma lives loudly within you” — is especially ironic, given that people like Feinstein maintain an unswerving adherence to the dogmas of the sexual revolution. It is remarkable how effective this project has been in proving their loyalty to that dogma. Eberstadt’s book is a great read. It is not against God that we wage war, but against nature, and against ourselves.

Casey Chalk is a Senior Contributor to The Federalist. He also serves as editor and columnist for The New Oxford Review. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in teaching from Christendom College, and a master of theology from Christendom College. He is also the author of The Persecuted, True Stories of Courageous Christians Living their Faith in Muslim Lands.