In the 1950’s the CIA created the term blowback describe the unintended consequences and undesirable side effects of its intelligence operations. Blowback seemed prove Newtown’s third law, ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’ . Some of these reactions are doomed to haunt those who provoke them in the first place.
The West is now suffering from ‘Cultural Blowback.’ It seemed innocent enough, “Gay marriage” was supposed to be about ‘equality’ of same sex couples and a recogntion of their relationship status in the eyes of society. But it didn’t end there.
Soon after, Gay couples creating their own families and raising children. Earlier this year a spokesman for the New South Wales Education Standard Authority argued:
“Schools are the best placed to decide the time and emphasis given to teaching topics within the curriculum-and are provided with the flexibility to teach sex education in a way that reflects their school’s ethos, cultural sensitivities , community values and diversity of students needs”
So how did we go from gay marriage to LGBT education for children? It didn’t happen by coincidence. We gave the green light has been given to teach children in school about all things LGBT. In society’s open embrace of gay marraige,we never stopped to wonder where the ethical lines should be drawn. The green light to teaching kids about LGBT issues is in part, the unintended consequence of our failure to evaluate what society would look like once Gay couples could get married.
But Australian society must bear a large portion of blame for opening this Pandora’s box. Aftter gaining increasing traction, the Turnbull government held a national referendum on marriage equality in 2017. The results of the referendum were that Australia voted in favour of ‘gay marriage’. Celebrations followed and scenes of elation were broadcast around Australia, people were in tears and overly joyous over this ‘perceived’ sign of moral progress. Gay people could now sit at the table of “equality.”
However euphoric this was, we never stopped to consider the future ramifications.. Now we have learnt something sociologically significant. Gay and Lesbian couples want to partake in the traditionally normative practices of straight couples: marriage and raising children. They are now raising children but the question we didn’t ask is should they?
The logical extension of heterosexual marriage is the introduction of children and the rearing of those young boys to be men and young girls to be women and ideally straight respectively. The logical extension of gay marriage, unsuprisingly, has followed the exact same path. As of today, there are more than 10,000 same sex parents with children. Half of this number have one child and 1 in 3 have two children.
But should this have been allowed to occur? Well we didn’t care about the answer to that question in 2017.In Australia today there are currently 10,000 same sex parents raising children.
Evolution has determined that a child is conceived by one mother and one father and this is what nature has deemed best for raising children. If the human species has been around for the past 1.5 million years and for much of that time Fathers and mothers both played key roles in raising children, however polygamous, or fraught with instances of abandonment, our species has been largely heterosexual.
Aren’t we now setting a new and unpredictable precedent now?
As kids, you see your mother and Father , this acts as a model for family when you grow up but if a child has two same sex (Gay or Lesbian parents) what kind of imprint does this leave on the individual? Unfortunately, we never stopped to ask these questions. And these kinds of questions are relevant on both sides of the coin, how can two men raise a baby who is supposed to form their first connection and attachment to their mother through touch and breastfeeding where communication via breast milk is made between the mothers body to augment the makeup of the breast milk during feeding.
Equally, how can two mothers raise a baby? Research tells us that children do better socially, psychologically and mentally when they are jointly raised their mother and father. But we wanted to usher in “mass societal gayness” so badly in 2017 that this never mattered. Now the uncomfortable conversation must be had. We are left with the cultural blowback. Over 10,000 couples are currently raising children and Australian society did not stop once to seriously examine the moral, ethical, societal and psychological quandaries this may entail. Gay parents are raising children who will not be as healthy as kids raised in nuclear families.
And finally, for now at least, the NSW school system has decided that ‘anything goes’ when it comes to sexual education. Is this a wise idea and is it moral and ethical? Again, we didn’t ask this question then and now we have tacitly accepted it now so who’s to blame?
Many of the issues we see arising today is what I term a hyper obsession with LGBT issues. We will learn in the not too distant future what the blowback of gay marriage, gay couples raising children and LGBT education in schools is. Since we didn’t care to ask these questions prior we will be left with the consequences of our un-intended actions.
What did we think would happen? That’s the very problem, we didn’t think at all.
