In the latest left-wing attack on the nuclear family, NPR suggested last week that “marriage could look very different in the future.”
The story noted that “over the past few decades, cohabitation rates have nearly doubled” and “more children are being born outside of marriage.” The taxpayer-subsidized organization then gleefully proclaimed that “there’s been buzz around polyamory and open relationships” because “younger generations [are] less set on following tradition.”
It then quoted a “polyamorous woman with a primary partner of 7 years” who said, “I definitely dreamt about getting married a lot when I was a kid, but as I got older, I realized marriage is basically just a piece of paper.” This cynical approach to marriage is unsurprising when a secular worldview is adopted because marriage really is little more than a piece of paper if it is viewed as an earthly institution that comes with some tax benefits.
A second person highlighted in the story is a gay man who said, “I would love to be married one day. I decided that I wasn’t going to wait for a man who may never come. So I started the process of surrogacy when I was around 30. Aphrodite Rose is now 4 1/2 months, so it’s been wonderful.” There is a lot to unpack there. Not only did he rent out the womb of a woman and use donated eggs to conceive a child who will be deprived of her mother forever, but he did it as a single man still actively seeking a partner.
The final vignette was of a man from Baltimore who said, “My love life with my partner, Mae, looks like a true partnership. We are an interracial marriage, but I don’t think it’s ever posed an issue for us in our respective communities.” NPR’s attempt to conflate interracial marriage with polyamory or gay marriage is ridiculous because it does not fundamentally change what marriage is: the union between one man and one woman. Interracial marriage should not be controversial, nor is it controversial. According to a Gallup Poll from 2021, 94% of the public approves of interracial marriage, with even stronger support among younger people.
The story then included an interview with a “futurist” who said the future will “have things that might stretch the meaning of what marriage is.” He suggested that while “polygamy has basically been a patriarchal institution,” polyamory is distinct because “younger generations are definitely more diverse, they’re more tolerant of gender continuum, [they’re] ideologically value-based, they’re more open to that.” He even went as far as to say, “You know, do we need to do reproduction through the institution of marriage? I’m less inclined to say that has to be there.”
It is abundantly clear, and has been for some time, that the nuclear family is under attack by the Left. In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels explicitly called for the “abolition of the family.” Many communists view it as an institution that needs to be destroyed along with “the distinction between town and country” and “the wage system” for a successful revolution. More recently, the Black Lives Matter organization included on its website language encouraging the disruption of the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”
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Marriage was redefined in U.S. law with the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, but that does not change the eternal nature of the institution itself, which cannot be changed by any government or any law. Despite recent polling suggesting that support for gay marriage has slightly declined, the mandate to overturn that decision will almost certainly never come. Therefore, normal people need to unite around clearly rejecting any further attempted redefinitions of marriage, particularly with respect to polyamory.
Marriage, in the future, will look the exact same as it always has: one man and one woman. Marriage is not an arbitrary institution that can be reinvented simply because the sexual mores of a culture have changed.