The Sexual Revolution, Not Racism or Capitalism, Ruins the Lives of the Poor, by John Zmirak

Jennifer Roback Morse is a scholar, wife, mom, and author. She founded perhaps the best comprehensive pro-life, pro-family thinktank, the Ruth Institute. Her work documents the devastating impact of the Sexual Revolution on society’s weakest, most vulnerable people, especially children. The Stream’s John Zmirak interviewed her about her sobering book,  The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along.

John Zmirak: You founded the Ruth Institute. Can you please explain its mission?

Jennifer Morse: The Ruth Institute is an international interfaith coalition defending the family and building a civilization of love.

In your book The Sexual State you make a bold claim: the Sexual Revolution is a totalitarian movement. Why do you say that?

The key insight is that the goals of the Sexual Revolution are Utopian fantasies. The Revolutionaries promote the belief that a good and decent society should do everything possible to separate sex from babies, separate both sex and babies from marriage, and eliminate all distinctions between men and women.

But all these goals are impossible. Sex actually does make babies. Children do need their parents. Life-long marriage between their parents does protect the needs of children. Men and women are really different.  …