How the New Corporate Elite Sold Same-Sex Marriage to the American Public (Public Discourse, 4/22/18)

"Normalization of homosexuality and acceptance of same-sex marriage became class values for our new class of corporate managers—those employed as public administration officials, financial managers, computer system analysts, computer scientists, college professors, lawyers, physicians, and other high achievers....Through affirmative action, the leverage of benefits, diversity training, consciousness raising, and the promulgation of 'shared values,' managers help create a new corporate regime, in which managers value diversity as much as profits and where opinions about language, food, and sexuality are as central to one's personal identity as earnings, capital, or one's place in the labor market....Many managers left religion, patriotism, and the pursuit of family life behind. Instead, their lives were given meaning by their devotion to careers celebrating cultural diversity, and celebrating homosexuality is thekey expression of that diversity....In homosexuals, America's corporate, coastal elites found a minority that looked like them: well-educated, creative, successful, white, and safe....this corporate elite actively avoids living near the poor or near ethnic minorities. Celebrating diversity by celebrating homosexuality thus became the way corporate managers lived with what would otherwise have been an astounding cognitive dissonance....Corporations publicly shamed and dismissed those who dissented from their orthodoxy...It took forty years for elites to bring us the normalization of homosexuality and acceptance for same-sex marriage. They are using the same techniques now to achieve transgender rights, and success may be on the horizon. A country in which such serious erosions of fundamentally important institutions happen so swiftly may be a country celebrating equality, but it is neither a free nor a self-governing country"

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/04/21309/