Ichabod in America

The State Reforming Souls and Ordering Families

By Eunice Ray

 

A most influential judicial think tank, the American Law Institute, is an association of independent lawyers and judges that, according to the New York Times, December 5, 2002, “has wielded an extraordinary influence over American legal practices, since its founding in 1923.”  In May 2002, the ALI published a guide book for lawyers and courts after spending 10 years evaluating Family Law.[1]  The ALI suggests:

• --A person’s sexual orientation should not be considered by courts in custody matters.

• --Homosexual couples in long-term relationships should have to make alimony or child- support payments if they split up.

The ALI’s principal author, Arizona State University, law professor Ira Mark Ellman, said the goal was to “close holes in family law that have left judges guessing as to how to deal with nontraditional families.”  Odd when you consider “nontraditional” families were initially defined in law and institutionalized by the ALI.  The ALI’s first salvo against traditional marriage and family was in 1955 and it began by disparaging fathers by citing Alfred Kinsey’s false data in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948).  Kinsey claimed 95% of American males are sex offenders under the then state common law penal code.  Fifty- two laws were recommended for “revision” which really meant elimination.

To mobilize the grassroots legal rank and file lawyers in advocacy for redefining man, woman and Marriage in Law, ACLU lawyer Morris Ernst, called upon “every bar association in the country” to “establish a Committee on the Laws of Sexual Behavior and consider its own State’s legal system in this field…to adjust our laws to the growth of scientific knowledge and the changing needs of the people.[2]  Ernst comments further:

“[N]o bar association, law school journal, or lawyers’ committee can consider laws . . . on sexual matters without reference to the Kinsey study. Kinsey’s first volume ended an era…[3]

The “era” to which Ernst refers is, of course, the Common Law era.  The 1910 Blacks Law Dictionary confirms, “Christianity [is] the religion founded and established by Jesus Christ. Christianity is a part of the common law, or of the law of the land.[4]  For a God Who is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, the Law didn’t change because it was fixed, but the evolutionary notion of the “stream of the law,” was sweeping away America’s founding Common Law order.   Ernst’s declaration heralds the beginning of the end of Marriage and Family, and the ALI’s Ira Mark Ellman announces its finish.  The New Family Order or “nontraditional” families is fully institutionalized in the law:

There has obviously been much more tolerance of those relationships [gay unions], even much more than a decade ago,'' Ellman said. We are only saying that the law should catch up.

In 1955, then Columbia law professor Herbert Wechsler, the ALI’s principal author, boasted of the ALI’s work as a private entity, on a Model Penal Code; “we mean to act as if we were a legislative commission, charged with construction of an ideal penal code.”[5]  For the ALI legal evolutionary elites, Man is inherently good, not evil. And, perhaps more importantly, man is perfectible with the proper environment shaped most importantly through education.  While the Common Law called for transgressors to be punished, once convicted by a jury of their peers, thanks to the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code, criminals are now considered diseased more likely in need of treatment than punishment.[6]  “Harsh” penalties were replaced by therapy instead of punishment as criminal offenses began to focus on the criminal instead of the act of wrong doing.  In numerous writings and in the 1952 Harvard Law Review calling for the new model of criminal law, chief author Wechsler signals this conceptual seismic shift carried in the ALI’s penal law revision: 

There has been some acceptance also of the larger point that penal law in general ought to concern itself with the offender’s personality, viewing his crime primarily as a symptom of a deviation that may yield to diagnosis and therapy.[7] (Emphasis added).

The State Reforming Souls

Enter psychiatry, psychology and sociology into American justice via the ALI Model Penal Code, for the first time as fully-vested partners, at a time when these fields did not enjoy great respect or wide acceptance.  If you were known to be seeing a “shrink” your career was over, and not simply because you had mental problems, but because you were seeing what was perceived by many to be a shaman, that is, a professional other than a minister who explained why things happen with words, laws and doctrines not grounded in Holy Scripture, then the only accepted rehabilitator of men’s souls.  While the Church today does not (yet) receive taxpayer support for rehabilitating men’s souls, with the advent of the ALI’s MPC into state law, therapeutic “experts” began a relationship with a new well-paying client, the government, for ministering to criminal “illness.”

Science is new governing authority

The Science defining the family upon which the ALI depended was concocted by evolutionist Alfred Kinsey, an indispensable support to launch the deconstruction of the American Family via the American Law Institute’s recommendations through their Model Penal Code.  Kinsey cooked his numbers and used pedophile data on child molestation to prove humans were sexual beings from birth.  At a time when sodomy, for example, was illegal and an “unnatural” act in all state penal codes, Kinsey was the ALI’s lone authority to recommend that sodomy laws be eliminated because he claimed sodomy is quite “normal,” contrary to the law and moral social conduct of the day. Not surprising, advocacy for Kinsey has waned, after it was learned in 1997 that he was not, in fact, the average married Midwestern academic at Indiana University, but rather a sadomasochist sodomite with sexual appetites.  One of the University’s chores was to conceal Kinsey’s proclivities in order to maintain propriety, prestige and most importantly the large Rockefeller grants and tax support to the state’s premier university for Kinsey’s “research.”  Yes, the science upon which all ALI changes to Marriage creating the non-traditional family is built on scientific fraud and crime. 

Should American Law and Justice adopt these latest ALI recommendations? 

After 50 years, has the removal of the state common law codes protective of marriage, women and children and treating criminal acts as disease been successful, as Wechsler predicted?  Sadly, for crime victims, no. Without looking at the high levels of sexual diseases spawned by deconstructing marriage, the ALI’s anti-social work of overturning or reducing penalties for 52 common law protections for woman and children has destabilized marriage and put children at risk.  From 1951-1997, violent crime increased a whopping 993%.  And in 1990, the American Bar Association conceded that over four-fifths of child sex abuse offenders are sentenced to probation, with the most common ”punishment” for molestation being that the offender receive “treatment for his sexual orientation to children.”[8] 

Today, if Rape is still a crime in a  state, penalties have generally been lowered from felonies to misdemeanors by statute or plea bargain, and only the evidence of physical violence or death constitutes “forcible” rape.[9]  The homosexual political movement cites to the science of the Kinsey Reports for its genesis and its basis for moving from a criminal act to a protected class only seeking civil rights.[10]  Finally, sodomy has gone from a criminal act in every state in 1948 to a celebrated lifestyle and has today fully flowered into a political movement powerful enough to decide elections and gain entrée into classrooms and the White House.

The New Family Order and the Church Supplanted
as the Court is New Spiritual Overseer and Therapist is Priest

 

In case this is all too unbelievable, after connecting the dots, it looks something like this: the State has usurped God’s design for Family government and delegated oversight to the courts and a priest class of psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists.  The mission: to create a “New Family Order,” improved and better, no doubt, but this puts America’s families outside God’s protections in our One Nation Under God.”  Not surprisingly people are sick, dying and the family, the institution Russell Kirk called the “little platoon,” is disintegrating. 

The reformers of men’s souls according to God, was the Church aided by the power of the Holy Spirit.  This understanding is obsolete today.  In the early 1960s psychologist Abraham Maslow predicted that psychologists would soon seize control of values from religion and be able to create an ideal society made up of "self-actualized men and women."  Maslow, prophet of the new humanistic psychology movement, like Kinsey’s “anything goes” sexuality, promised positive results from abandoning God’s standards.  The new ministers are secularly trained at university in the fraudulent scientific Kinseyan model of human sexuality where pleasure is the measure.  Needless to say it’s been overwhelmingly popular. 

Since Professor Wechsler hardwired the therapeutic field into the ALI Model Penal Code whose tenets were made law in every state, and therapists became Government’s full partner in the Criminal Court system, expect the same process to occur in the newly evolving Family Court system.  Thanks to the ALI’s Professor Ellman, these “experts” will “close the holes in family law that have left judges guessing how to deal with nontraditional families.”[11] 

From obscurity to the criminal courts in the middle of the 20th century, therapeutic “experts” are poised to minister to our troubled “relations.”  Top psychiatrists at the APA have proposed a new psychiatric disorder, “Relational Disorders,” slated to be added to the next edition of the DSM.[12]  The Washington Post reports: Instead of treating individuals, psychiatrists propose treating groups:

In the proposed class of illness, an individual might be healthy except when it comes to certain relationships. For the moment, the new category of mental illness would apply only to family relationships... couples who quarrel and parents and children who clash could be diagnosed with mental illness and treated, possibly with drugs. Relationships with siblings could be next. Doctors hope that creating a new disease category would encourage systematic study, drug trials and insurance coverage.

Enforcement of the New Family Order will come efficiently through the compulsory education system where the therapeutic field is increasingly intervening in a child’s development.  The precedent for government mandated and funded therapy to mold and rehabilitate souls began in the criminal justice system.  For example, a whopping third of the Kansas Corrections budget is spent for therapy for court ordered offenders, and half of the inpatient mental health budget in Missouri.  Expect the therapeutic field to parlay this into a cash gushing bonanza with the Department of Education, especially when compared to corrections appropriations.  Kentucky has proposed placing a social worker, ethically bound to be “tolerant” of all orientations, in every school.  School health clinics and counseling services already thriving there demand a larger portion of education’s financial pie to fund them as children are guided away from the archaic notions of marriage and nuclear family, large family size, individualism, patriotism, in short, the American way of life, laid down by the founders and guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.  The therapeutic ministers can be expected to deliver a student product who meets the State’s established educational goals.  Conflicts or student confusion arising between parental guidance and foreign school teachings can be remedied by in-school therapeutic professionals, but don’t be surprised if you or your children’s violation of the moral values of the State’s “New Family Order” is soon defined as a “relational disorder.” 

How it Might Work: 

“Before I Met Rick I was strate [sic] but now i am gay,” wrote Alex in one note.”

The American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychology Association long ago dropped “homosexuality,” as a “disease,” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) the profession’s official guide (bible) for defining emotional and mental illnesses.  The National Association of Social Workers code of ethics requires social workers to embrace the practice.  Irreconcilably, the Bible simply says sodomy is an “abomination.” 

Given the therapeutics’ position on sodomy, the recent murder in Florida is a prime example of how the new “Relational Disorders” could be employed by the new family court system.  Alex (12) and Derek (13) King were accused and convicted of bludgeoning their father, Terry King, to death with an aluminum baseball bat on November 25, 2001, because of sodomy with their father’s “long-time” friend Ricky Chavis.  The CourtTV website has background:[13]

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  Young Alex King

  Chavis was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison for molesting two teenage boys in 1984.

• Chavis admits to being gay, but claims that he has not been sexually active in years and denies that any relationship between him and Alex King took place…

• The brothers talked about their problems with their father,

• He [Chavis] also confessed that he had told the boys if Terry was gone they could live with him

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  Ricky Marvin Chavis, Convicted Pedophile

  According to Alex, he said he suggested to his younger brother that they kill their father so that they would not have to live with him anymore.

• Alex said that Chavis helped him come to the realization that his father mentally abused him, and Chavis had agreed to let the boys live with him…

• Both said that their father rarely struck them, but that he mentally abused them. When asked, they admitted being housed, clothed, fed, and only disciplined by Terry when they had done something wrong.[14]

In this “Relational Disorder,” between the sons and their father, by-the-book therapists will not find homosexuality a disorder in the DSM and in the DSM IV and since 1995 pedophilia has not been a disorder unless the pedophile feels guilty or uneasy about his desires.[15]  By-the-book therapists would only be able to find the intolerant father in a future DSM, who chaffed at Mr. Chavis sodomizing his young sons.  With most states having eliminated sodomy as a criminal act, and Kinsey’s claim that children are sexual beings from birth, it is apparent that the father is the big loser as the dots form this New Family Order.  As defined in the DSM, the son is obviously “gay” and being loved by Chavis who knows about his special status.  

Mom and Dad, R.I.P.

In the new Family Order, you can thank the State because all this sorrow, murder and mayhem can soon be avoided by a young Alex, who, through his school counselor or social worker, can access the family court system to protect his relationship to his “gay” partner and avoid killing his father. 

Mercifully the father could be brought before the court for the “mental abuse” of his young son’s newly discovered “gayness” compliments of the father’s “best friend.”  The therapeutic expert diagnoses the father with a “relational disorder,” the court intervenes, offers treatment and/or medication to the father for his “disorder.”  The offer tendered is simple.  Take the treatment or lose your sons to the State.  Many will find it too costly to mount a court battle to resist, and by then the father’s insurance plan at work may be enlightened enough to pay for “relational disorder” therapy and the medication too.  The future of the New Family Order seems bright indeed!  Children don’t need the protection of Father, when the State is so much richer and stronger. 

Terry King, Alex and Derek’s dead father

In time, law and public policy redefine Marriage and Family giving way to the more inclusive and tolerant term “Relations” (you know from the chart, a mixture of any group of adults and children become the new definition of family), and “affectional orientation” legislation, previously introduced in a few state legislatures, may finally get traction.  This new “orientation” allows for unrelated adults to petition the court for visitation or custody of children, not their own.  The new Family Courts are prying wide the definition of family to the very most inclusive and thereby allowing God’s governmental order for Marriage and the promises and blessings bequeathed to the “generations” to completely fade for those foolish enough to participate in the New Family Order.  

The boys' mother, Janet French, a.k.a. Kelly Marino

Finally, America can no longer boast of a Christian law order, because America’s founding law order was deliberately abolished.  Now thanks to the ALI, sodomites, feminists and other extreme groups have put a new song in America’s mouth, a new anthem: “Baal Bless America,” The new savior of mankind, the State, is transfigured from merely functioning to facilitate Family to the Master of Family, flanked by the ALI, as the new lawgiver on one side, and the Therapeutic on the other, the new prophet explaining why things happen, but in words and terms foreign to God’s Word.  Make no mistake Church: This alliance, the ALI/family law and Therapeutics as reformer of men’s souls, enforced by the power of the State, is an unholy trinity, and marks the end of the Family as ordained by God, not to mention the end of the separation of Church and State because humanism is the state religion. 

The Law has institutionalized evolutionary paganism with an evolving man-centered law featuring a New Family Order with an array of “non-traditional” families, with total sexual freedom at any age unbound by biology and conception (optional and not advisory).  To nurture the lives crushed by the grinding of the New Family Order, the new “Spiritual Overseers,” the courts and the schools will dispatch tax-supported ministers, a most tolerant therapeutic priest class, armed with legal pharmacopeias of soul-sedating soma.  Write Ichabod above American Law, the glory of the Lord has departed. 

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