School textbook defines ‘hippies’ as followers of rock stars who may have worshipped Satan

[patrice]

130. Catholics weren't teaching it, but you'd hear Catholic LAY leaders say shit like that. There were

also those who liked to rave on about the evil in the music, all of that base and those drums are a call to group sex.

Funny, they're kind of right but wrong about exactly HOW they're right (the way lots of us are, btw). The sex in all of it really was/is sex, but hippies were busy learning (somewhat imperfectly) how to bless sex, many missed the mark, but many also grew to be the ones who learned that free love manifests itself in the way that is specifically relevant to the persons living the truth of it as honestly as they could in their relationships and, of course, we noticed that that didn't mean sex with everyone. Even though they were definitely minorities, there really were some genuinely good effects of freelove amongst the liberals and intellectual libertarians of those times, which effects included things like: divorce doesn't have to be about hate and anger; children shouldn't be programmed to marry at all costs; masturbation is not evil; women's sexual desires are as much of a priority as men's; bearing children should be a conscious choice; women have something to contribute to "us" AS women . . . .

And we didn't get ALL of that out of the Karma Sutra he, he . . .