How a rolling sexual revolution is crushing freedom
When German writer and public speaker Gabriele
Kuby talks about the effects of the West’s student revolution of 1968 she knows
her stuff. She was there, at the Free University of Berlin, studying sociology
and gung-ho with the anti-authoritarianism of the era.
There has been a revolution in her own life
since then and she now devotes her public work to raising consciousness about
the cultural devastation being wrought by the ongoing sexual revolution. In the
following Q&A she talks about her book on the subject, an English edition
of which was published last December.
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Q. In your book, The Global Sexual Revolution –
Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom, you report
and warn about the destruction of freedom and culture through the global sexual
revolution. Why is this so?
A. As
sex goes, so goes the family. As the family goes, so goes society. Sexual norms
have a decisive influence on the whole cultural edifice. The anthropolgist J.D.
Unwin, an Oxford scholar of the 1930s, showed in his book Sex
and Culture that
high culture can only exist with strict sexual norms. Christian European
culture rests on the ideal of monogamy. We are now in a cultural revolution
that overthrows sexual morality. The severe consequences are obvious: The
destruction of the family and the demographic crisis. But the powers of this
world continue to force the sexual revolution on every nation.
Q. Does moral deregulation lead to
sexual liberation?
A. To
throw off any moral restraint to sexual activity is wrapped in the temptation
of “sexual liberation”. Everybody knows from experience that the urges and
drives of the body need to be controlled, be it sex or food or drink, otherwise
they will control us. Therefore temperance is one of the cardinal virtues. The
explosion of pornography through the internet creates millions of sexually
addicted people, tragically more and more youth are among them. Marriage and
families break up if husband and wife are driven into unfaithfulness by their
sexual desires, because they have not learnt to make them a servant of the
expression of love.
Q. Who has contributed to the
sexual revolution intellectually?
A. Tracing
the ideas that have powered the sexual revolution one can go back to the Greek
philosopher Protagoras who proclaimed that “man is the measure of all things”.
This belief is the basis of relativism which claims, that there are no absolute
moral values. The French Revolution overturned the Christian concept of man,
created by God and ultimately responsible to God. Since then, many revered
minds have contributed philosophical and psychological ideas and cultural
revolutionary expertise. They all sympathize with communist or liberal
political movements. To name just a few: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,
Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Alfred Kinsey, the outright sexual revolutionist
Wilhelm Reich, and the philosophers Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse, who are
known as the Frankfurter Schule (Frankfurt school).
Q. What role did the radical
feminism and Marxism of the 1968 movement play?
A. The
breakthrough that changed society as a whole was the student rebellion of 1968.
It was fueled by the ideas of the Frankfurter School and it put into
practice the ideas of Wilhelm Reich. Marxism, radical feminism and the “sexual
liberation” merged and attacked the Christian value system at the root by
rebelling against any authority. Children were the immediate object of the
revolutionaries: So called anti-authoritarian “children shops” (Kinderläden)
were founded, where children could do what they wanted and were encouraged in
sex play.
Q. How has the 1968 movement
influenced the time we live in?
A. The
goals of 1968-movement have become the agenda of the UN and EU and are carried
forward by the global enforcement of LGBT-“rights” and the deconstruction of
male and female identity:
* The deregulation of sexual norms. Promotion
of LGBT-privileges, including same sex marriage and transgender “rights”.
* Undermining of the family by ideological and
economic means (tax- and social security systems penalize mothers and families)
* Collectivization of children below three
years in state day care facilities
* Sexualization of children through obligatory
sex-education in schools
* Eradication of “gender-stereotypes” by
pedagogical methods in kindergarten and school
These attacks on the foundations of a healthy,
viable society create masses of uprooted people who are easily manipulated. It
is not only the strategy of the UN and EU, but of a network of UN-agencies like
WHO and UNICEF, global NGOs like IPPF and ILGA, global corporations like Apple,
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, billionaire foundations like Rockefeller and
Gates, supported by the mainstream media.
Q. Abortion and contraception are
often justified with the dangers of overpopulation of this earth. Do you think
they are real dangers?
A. One
obvious motive for these destructive policies is to reduce the population of
this earth. This is foreign policy of the USA since the 1970s. But the real
problem is the demographic decline which nearly all industrialized nations are
facing and which is now beginning even in developing countries. It is a
consequence of separating sex from its existential meaning and function,
procreation, through contraception and abortion. Strong forces in the UN and EU
battle for defining abortion as a “human right”. Where has humanity come to
since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?
Q. What are the consequences of
the "gender" concept that LGBT lobbies seek to impose on societies?
A. The
goal of implementing gender-ideology into society with sophisticated methods of
social engineering is the deconstruction of the identity of man and woman, thus
attacking family and morality on its deepest level. Since the decision of the
Supreme Court of the USA in June 2015 we see a new wave of transgender activism
coming from the USA. Obama, president of the leading nation of this world, is
at the front of the “bathroom battle”, authorizing policy that allows a
transgender person to use the toilet and locker-room of the sex of his choice.
That 99 percent of the population of the United States has a problem when
members of the opposite sex enter bathroom-facilities, especially when they are
used by children, seems to be of no concern to the political rulers.
Q. What are the main ways to
change society according to gender-ideology?
A. Apart
from changing the legal system and sexualizing children by force of the state,
this ideology is worked into the brain and psyche of people through the media,
the entertainment-industry (film and music) and pornography. Pornography is a
multi-billion business. Watching pornography is addictive like a physical drug;
it destroys marriages and families and is a slippery slope into sexual crime.
Why is there no campaign of the EU against pornography, as there is against
smoking? The difference is that smoking does not destroy family, pornography
does.
Q. You've gone from participation
in the revolutionary movement of 1968 as a student at the Free University of
Berlin to a courageous activist against the ravages of global sexual revolution.
You attribute your "awakening" to your conversion to Catholicism.
What is the contribution of Christian humanism in this cultural battle?
A. I
converted to Catholicism twenty years ago and discovered a wealth of teaching
on the issues of man and woman, family and sexuality. John Paul II devoted his
life and papacy to these issues, providing a theological basis for the
encyclical Humanae Vitae of Paul VI, which addressed
contraception. Benedict XVI is an enlightened analyst and visionary of our
historical epoch. That is the intellectual side. But there is also a spiritual
side: Conversion leads to a change of life. Jesus says: “Who loves me will keep
my commandments (John 14,15). Keeping the commandments allows the Holy Spirit
to enlighten our understanding and change our life.
Q. What prevents us from realizing
that the sexual revolution puts the future of our society at risk?
A. Not
keeping the commandments, that is, separating from God through sin creates
blindness. The mass-media do what they can to make any kind of sin seem
acceptable, so people lose the spirit of discernment between good and evil. In
the Bible we read: “I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.” (Deut. 30,19).
The statistics of family breakup, psychological disturbances of a high
percentage of children and the demographic crisis shout at us, but we are deaf.
We do not know in which phase of the history
of mankind we are. But as believers we know that the human story has a good
ending. Each one of us can choose life and use his talents to work for life. To
know you are on the side of life, and therefore on the “right side of history”
allows you to lead a happy and peaceful life.
Q. You are personally attacked as
a “homophobic” and “far right” in an attempt to ostracize you from the public
discourse. There have been demonstrations against you, and in a theater play in
Berlin you and four other politically active women were characterized as
“zombies” who had risen from the graves in 1945 and who should be shot in the
head to get rid of them. Does that discourage you?
A. I
am not “homophobic”, because I have no fear (phobia
= fear) of homosexuals, nor do I have anything to do with the “far right”. I am
a defender of democratic rights against this newly arising totalitarianism. The
Berlin play works with manipulated quotations, and we are taking them to court
to protect the democratic right of free speech. The attacks do not discourage
me. I do what I feel I am called to do.
Q. Can we win this cultural
battle?
A. Let
me answer with David: “The battle belongs to the Lord (1 Sam 17, 47).
Gabriele Kuby is
a German writer and sociologist, a frequent lecturer in Germany and around
Europe, and has written for numerous print and on-line publications in Europe.
This article is a slightly edited version of an interview with Hazte Oir. See
also: Europe's Cassandra. Reprinted
with permission from MercatorNet.
