Alvin, Heidi Toffler's ideas are 'Pat Robertson's nightmare': Tim Murphy
(NEWSER) - Newt Gingrich has been keeping pretty quiet about two of his mentors lately, perhaps because he's seeking the White House, writes Tim Murphy at Mother Jones . But for a good 20 years, beginning in the late '70s, he was a loud of proponent of Alvin and Heidi Tofflers' futurist beliefs—but many of the married couple's ideas wouldn't much appeal to the voters Gingrich is currently going after. Indeed, the two "predicted a new era of social norms that are straight out of Pat Robertson's nightmares—polygamy, baby-making factories, gay parents, and serial marriage," writes Murphy. More»