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Those benefits are also what has driven the same sex marriage agenda in my opinion.
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Mrs. Schlafly doesn't isolate the nexus here, but does come close (to have gone there would have been a distracting digression that would have required too many column inches to allow in this medium).
There are four possible sources of authority in life: The family, G_d, employers, and the state. To a child, not yet of working age, the employer does not apply, leaving only the almighty state.
Marx supposedly wanted to dispose of all but the state, yet no matter what, but production, defense, or any "ordered" system must be hierarchical to function: collective "consensus" has NEVER worked by common consent. Hence, "communism" always led to tyranny and thus was essentially fascism, as is evidenced by the fact that Marx' Manifesto was financed by the wealthiest bankers in Europe. It was to be a means of concentrating power for the manipulation by the few, cloaked in a supposedly cultural altruism. G_d's system of voluntary charity focuses upon families united in faith as the source of temporal authority and thereby liberty, Marx' exact opposite.
Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.
—Rabid Marxist Libertarian Pope Leo XIII, 1880
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We might “call a truce on social issues,” but the Left has no intention to ever call a truce. And “social issues” are a Trojan horse for every fiscal issue.