{"id":17561,"date":"2013-02-17T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17561"},"modified":"2013-02-17T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:34:09","slug":"the-next-cultural-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17561","title":{"rendered":"The Next Cultural Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Smith at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/340865\/push-normalize-polyamory-begins-wesley-j-smith\">National Review<\/a> posted an article today about the next cultural fad&#8211;polyamory. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scientific American\" href=\"http:\/\/scientificamerican.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Scientific American<\/a> posted an article on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Valentine's Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/topics\/valentines-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"break\">Valentine&#8217;s day<\/a> entitled, &#8220;New <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sexual revolution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Sexual Revolution<\/a>: Polyamory May Be Good for You.&#8221; The subtitle of the article was, &#8220;What <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Swinging\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swinging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">swinging couples<\/a> and committed <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Polyamory\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polyamory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">polyamorists<\/a> can teach monogamists about love.&#8221; Now in case you are wondering why I am posting this, there is a very simple reason. This is the type of article introduced at the beginning of a push to change a societal norm. I am sure if you go back a number of years, you will find the same sort of article about homosexuality. Unfortunately, I suspect we will soon begin to see articles of this sort of pedophilia.<\/p>\n<p>The article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=new-sexual-revolution-polyamory\">Scientific American<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;People in these relationships really communicate. They communicate to death,&#8221; said Bjarne Holmes, a psychologist at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Champlain College\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=44.475677,-73.205685&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=44.475677,-73.205685 (Champlain%20College)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Champlain College<\/a> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vermont\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=44.0,-72.7&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=44.0,-72.7 (Vermont)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Vermont<\/a>. All of that negotiation may hold a lesson for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Monogamy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monogamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">monogamously<\/a> inclined, Holmes told <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"LiveScience\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">LiveScience<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;They are potentially doing quite a lot of things that could turn out to be things that if people who are practicing monogamy did more of, their relationships would actually be better off,&#8221; Holmes said. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/14104-happy-marriage-tips.html\">6 Scientific Tips for a Successful Marriage<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heterosexual monogamy is the foundation of our society. We need to be suspicious of anyone who tries to undermine that. Remember, when you take away the foundation, the building falls down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=362a6985-0b9a-472b-8664-af28ff5b718b\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Smith at the National Review posted an article today about the next cultural fad&#8211;polyamory. The Scientific American posted an article on Valentine&#8217;s day entitled, &#8220;New Sexual Revolution: Polyamory May Be Good for You.&#8221; The subtitle of the article was, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5000,4999,5003,911,4998,5002,5001,2444],"class_list":["post-17561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-champlain-college","tag-livescience","tag-monogamy","tag-national-review","tag-polyamory","tag-swinging","tag-valentines-day","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17565,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions\/17565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}