A recent directive from the New York State Department of Health is one of the latest examples of the deterioration of America's culture. Sent to the offices of the 900-plus cities and towns in the Empire State, it contained a newly created "Certificate of Live Birth" along with a single-page explanation of why it had been sent. The official document noted that a New York State court had ruled that same-sex "marriages" performed in "other jurisdictions" (such as in neighboring Massachusetts) "must be recognized." Therefore, stated the directive, "any married woman that gives birth in your district will have her spouse — male or female — listed in the birth certificate as the second parent."

Samples of the new form accompanying the directive contained space for the entry of the name of "Mother" and a second space for entry of another "Mother." No space for any father is provided. That's on another form available from the state to use in registering the newly born child of a heterosexual couple.

New York State now dignifies homosexuality to the point of considering two females as the parents of a newborn. And New York State is not alone in taking such action. The bedrock of any worthwhile civilization, the traditional family, has been undermined and has now been officially denigrated.

No government bureau would have dared circulate such a directive only a few decades in the past. A solid foundation of traditional morality would have made it impossible to even consider such a departure during past millennia. But America's culture is changing, and the gradual acceptance of same-sex "marriage" is just one example. But why is America changing?

The transformation of America's culture has much to do with the strategy laid out by a communist theoretician named Antonio Gramsci. His plan for subverting the non-communist world is known by far too few. Yet, what he advocated is occurring.

A founder of Italy's Communist Party in the wake of World War I, Gramsci soon became disillusioned at the party's fortunes because of the rise of fascist Benito Mussolini. So he fled to Russia in hopes of finding a more pure form of Marxism. The paradise he expected to find, however, turned out to be a tyranny controlled by the military, allied with police-state terror. Still anxious to build Marxism, he returned to Italy but was arrested and jailed under suspicion of being an agent of a hostile foreign power. During nine years in prison, he formulated a plan for conquering Italy and the rest of the Christian West.

Instead of hoping for a spontaneous revolution of the working masses, as many communists actually forecast, Gramsci proposed attacking the West's cultural foundations, thereby weakening the structure of those nations he wanted to conquer. If communists could undermine faith in God and love of family and country, he believed, the Christian West would become rootless and would be an easy prey for conquest. His plan called for infiltrating the cultural institutions — churches, schools, media, etc. — and converting them into instruments for change that would promote cleverly disguised Marxism and (in general) subvert the culture of the target country.

Gramsci recommended that communists should ridicule morality, decency, and virtue. He said that real heroes should be replaced by adulation of the equivalent of today's decadent rock stars and Hollywood favorites. Especially should communist cadres work to denigrate the institutions of marriage and family. While other communist leaders believed that the route to power involved politics, labor unrest, violent revolution, even economic warfare, Gramsci worked to sap a nation's cultural base and weaken resistance to communism's ultimate goal.
                                                         
Antonio Gramsci died in prison in 1937, an almost forgotten man. But the nine volumes of recommendations he compiled during his years behind bars were later published as his Prison Notebooks. Issued in many languages, the Gramscian strategy has been employed very effectively in many countries, certainly including the United States. Especially did Gramsci point to the importance of gaining influence among the cultural elites to bring about a piecemeal triumph of Marxism that (for a country with a strong tradition of freedom such as the United States) could not happen through an open and sudden revolution.

Consider the harmful effect on America's cultural base of such forces as feminism, the homosexual lobby, extreme environmentalism, liberal historians who trash our nation's founders, and jurists and legislators who operate on the false doctrine that the U.S. Constitution was written only for a bygone age and modern government has all the answers for today's needs. Much of the attack on America's foundations has been funded by the elitists who gained control of the fortunes amassed by such men as Rockefeller, Ford, and Carnegie. While it is true that many Americans shrink in horror at the erosion of culture that so marked our nation, few seem to understand why it is happening.

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Editor Warren said:

	Excellent! If more Americans knew about Gramsci, they would better understand the forces at work to destroy our culture. Much more education is needed.
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February 18, 2009
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Pogo said:

... "We have met the enemy and he is us..." Antonio Gramsci is a red (literally) herring. America's cultural problems are not the product of a small conspiracy of strategically-placed Marxists. They are due to the fact that the American people, as a whole, have fallen into idolatry. (Romans 1) To blame all this on Gramsci, the Frankfurt School, etc. is to presuppose that it is possible for men to re-engineer a culture and to change people's hearts from the outside in by changing their environment. That itself is Marxist thinking. The current trend in American culture represents the natural trajectory of ALL human culture lest God save the people and regenerate the hearts of the sinners.

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February 18, 2009
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Paul Sammon said:

DESTRUCTION OF CULTURE-THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS That last paragraph hit it right on the head as far as what kind of groups are behind this such as: radical feminism, environmentalism, the ACLU and revisionist historians. It is true that the tax-exempt foundations financially back these kinds of atrocities as well as Communism itself. This fact was detailed in the findings of the Reece Commission in 1953 and the brave Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. One common thread in all of this is that it is all of the occult or Satanic in origin. These groups such as the environmentalist(radical)movement and the feminist movement have tenets of communist/socialist teachings which originate from the occult. In the old Soviet Union the Communists have a song called the "International" which marks a "predestination to hell" or an invitation to Lucifer to claim one's soul. Many of the "revisionist" historians have communist leanings. They use these entrenched subversive beliefs and philosophies to rewrite history of their own making to suit their own agenda(to destroy goodness and Godliness)and to have the opposite effect. Many the meglomaniac "power brokers" who finance and run many of the tax-exempt foundations belong to the highest degrees of Freemasonry(which are Luciferian according to founder Albert Pike in Morals and Dogma). Some such as David Rockefeller have committed themselves to the 5 steps of DEMONIC possession. No wonder so many of these groups with their purposes and agendas are so evil and seek to destroy anything HOLY. This is SPIRITUAL WARFARE that is on a scale much bigger than just earth. As Ephesians said, this is "not a battle of flesh and blood, but of spirits of wickedness on high and in high places" such as in places of power like the CFR and Tax-Exempt foundations. We as American people need to be soldiers of Christ and know our enemy-so that we can fight our enemy and gird our loins in the battle against the evil one.

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Gerry Coleman said:

	Fractal Science in New York Only from TNA can we hear this fractal science as the law in NY State. O my God!!!! Like....... I am speechless. 2 females make a baby? Sheer chaos, ultimate paradigms *&%9;#~~~???
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February 25, 2009
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