Like religion, the family must be destroyed before liberty can be snuffed out completely

NY Times Attacks Traditional Family on Father's Day

by Dave Blount 

Yesterday the New York Times celebrated Father's Day by publishing an exceedingly lengthy piece on its conception of the modern family:

The setup is complicated. Griffin's mother, Carol Einhorn, a fund-raiser for a nonprofit group, is 48 and single. She conceived through in vitro fertilization with sperm from Mr. Russell, 49, a chiropractor and close friend. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday nights, Mr. Russell stays in the spare room of Ms. Einhorn's apartment. The other three days he lives on President Street with his domestic partner, David Nimmons, 54, an administrator at a nonprofit. Most Sundays, they all have dinner together.

We are asked to regard this grotesquely pathological situation as normal.

Such is the hiccupping fluidity of the family in the modern world. Six years running now, according to census data, more households consist of the unmarried than the married. More people seem to be deciding that the contours of the traditional nuclear family do not work for them, spawning a profusion of cobbled-together networks in need of nomenclature. Unrelated parents living together, sharing chores and child-rearing. Friends who occupy separate homes but rely on each other for holidays, health care proxies, financial support.

The conventional family just isn't hip anymore, so get with the program. Soon the termsfather and mother will have been made into obscenities, as Aldous Huxley predicted in A Brave New World.

Reducing our culture to a freak show may make the creeps writing for the Times feel more at home, but the real underlying purpose is the same as with all their propaganda: to increase the power of government. Like religion, the family must be destroyed before liberty can be snuffed out completely, because it is a bulwark against the authority of the State.