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) summarizes with these chilling words: <\/p>\n \u201cThe wild oats sown in the course of the American sexual revolution have brought forth such a great forest of tangled structural, moral, and intellectual thorns that we seem almost powerless to cut it down. We seem to be living out the grim prophecy that Friedrich Nietzsche offered a century ago: that in the course of the twentieth century, \u2018the family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals, haphazardly bound together \u2018in the common pursuit of selfish ends\u2019 \u2013 and in the common rejection of thestructures and strictures of family, church, state, and civil society.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What did the sexual revolution sow? What is being reaped? John Witte ( From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition (Family, Religion, and Culture) ) summarizes with these chilling words: \u201cThe wild oats sown in the course of the American sexual revolution have brought forth such a great forest of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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