Progressive perverts on parade

Donald Trump famously called the press the “enemy of the people” because he said they spread “fake news” about him during his time running for president and later in office. The truth is that when it comes to the “culture war,” corporate media are a threat to the American public because of the real stories they promote every day.

MSNBC host Joy Reid recently interviewed Tiffany Justice, co-founder of the group Moms for Liberty. Progressives accuse Justice and her group of spreading hate and trying to erase black and LGBTQ content from school curricula. Anyone familiar with their work understands that Moms for Liberty expresses the frustration many parents feel toward a K-12 school system more focused on racial and sexual politics than reading and math.

One sign of a culture in decline is when it attacks the normal and promotes the obscene.

At one point, Reid brought up the book “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and asked Justice what expertise Moms for Liberty drew on to argue for its removal from schools. Justice noted that the book is a memoir that uses explicit language to describe sexual acts and sexual abuse. Then Justice asked Reid, “In what context is a strap-on dildo acceptable for public school?” Reid never answered that question, and when the Twitter account for her show posted this exchange, it wouldn’t even spell out the term.

The progressive press is a lot like many school boards in America. Both hate when conservatives expose them and other adults to the sexually explicit material they want children to have in the classroom. Liberal outlets prefer to control the narrative to make the public more open to alternative lifestyles and sexual kinks.

New York magazine recently published a story about polyamory that took readers into the tangled web of several adults in relationships with one another. Here is one passage that demonstrates the confusion:

Celebrating your lover while they marry their partner while supporting your lover’s lover’s lover while they go through it is an example of what Anna calls “living life on hard mode.” “There’s a real sense of connection that I think comes from doing hard things, and I’m someone who likes to do hard things,” Sarah explains further.

A few days after I read this story, I saw a headline in the New York Post titled, “Is your relationship ready for polyamory? 6 signs that point to yes.”

In a few years, don’t be surprised when a “polycule” composed of three men and two women files for a marriage license in a blue state. This will inevitably kick off a cultural debate about whether there is any moral or legal reason to restrict “marriage” to only two adults.

One thing to keep in mind is that family policy is downstream from marriage laws. If a state declares six men can get “married,” it won’t be long before those men assert the “right” to adopt a child. And we can be sure that some New York Times columnist or MSNBC host will be there to explain why this is good for society.

The only types of relationships the corporate press doesn’t like to promote are those that have been the bedrock of every society since the beginning of time.

Over the past few years, several media outlets have published opinion pieces questioning whether a husband and wife raising their biological children should be seen as the ideal family structure.

David Brooks wrote that the nuclear family was a mistake in an essay in the Atlantic. A Harvard professor argued that black children don’t benefit from intact families and married parents as much as their white peers. One author for New York magazine — who is married with children — wanted to know why so many conservatives seemed to be fixated on encouraging more Americans to marry.

The media’s agenda in the realms of sex, sexuality, and relationships also means that social commentators promoting traditional marriage and the natural family unit should expect to be questioned and ridiculed by the left. One economics professor recently wrote a book arguing that children have better outcomes when they are raised by a married mom and dad in an intact household. Even this seemingly noncontroversial conclusion — backed by decades of research — has forced her to counter bad-faith arguments about her position on a regular basis.

One sign of a culture in decline is when it attacks the normal and promotes the obscene. I doubt Joy Reid would want the “Success Sequence” taught in K-12 schools, but I could easily see her inviting a guest to talk about why schools need classes in porn literacy for students. Parents need to be vigilant when it comes to content aimed at their children. Progressives want to influence the culture and control the classroom. They know how important our children are.

So should we.