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>PSM, on the other hand, breaks down CMS. It encourages non-monogamy, free love, and does not believe that marriage is sacred. It is often anti-natalist. It advances the idea that there is no necessary relationship between sex and gender. Homosexuality and all its variations are on equal footing with heterosexuality.
This is simply not true, apart from the marriage being civil not sacred part. Augustus exiled his own daughter Julia for being a promiscuous, without any Christian hope of forgiveness, charity, or redemption.

It's a modern mistake to think that paganism was libertine, they were sober stuffy prudes concerned with civitas and the dry cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.

Chesterton makes this point in Heretics Chapter 12, Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson, it's Christianity that introduced the unreasonable liberal virtues of faith, hope, and charity:
https://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/heretics/12/