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Freedom is Not Free
truthxchange.com ^ | January 18, 2013 | Dr. Peter Jones

Posted on 01/22/2013 8:08:39 PM PST by truthxchange

Freedom Is Not Free

By Dr. Peter Jones

As the Sixties cultural revolution reaches maturity, we need to remember that its fundamental rationale was the rejection of external authority and government control, for “sacred” individual liberty and independence, especially in sexual behavior. To our surprise, the cost of this freedom has fallen on everyone.

In a recent article posted on The Aquila Report, Dr. Paul Kengor recalled the brilliant career of the recently deceased legal authority, Robert Bork. Bork’s book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline (2003),documented the decline of American culture, liberated from sexual restraints.We remember that Bork was “borked”—refused a place on the Supreme Court by a violent and irresponsible tirade to preserve the gains of the Sixties Revolution. In 1987, Senator Ted Kennedy criticized Bork of wanting “a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, and rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids.” This was the same married Ted Kennedy who, on July 18, 1969 (I remember it well), in an attempt to hide his illicit affair, abandoned his youthful secretary, Mary Jo Kopechne, not in a back alley but in the back of his accidentally submerged 1967 Oldsmobile in a canal on Chappaquiddick Island, where, during his failed attempt at a cover-up, she finally drowned! This hypocritical “borking” helped assure the success of the Sixties’ sexual liberation, but at the cost of a brilliant legal mind, barred from exercising wise limits on a culture now in deep water.

And deep debt. According to Kengor, Bork understood the cost incurred by evangelical and Catholic parents, sending their children to colleges to be taught by liberals, paying untold millions in school fees to undermine the very values they had worked to instill in their children!

Not just parents are paying. Apparently, the sexual revolution had no intention of paying for itself, as the recent flap in 2012 over Sandra Fluke, clearly shows. This 30-something unmarried law student at Georgetown demanded, with great moral conviction and indignation, that other people underwrite the monthly contraception bill she incurs in her elective sexual activities. Sexual socialism, now a plank of the Democratic Party, was something not even Karl Marx could have imagined!

“Free sex,” taught in public high schools at government expense, in teen magazines, and modeled by Hollywood celebrities and TV shows, is not free for the tax-payer. The average citizen has to underwrite other people’s fantasies. This liberated life-style, outside the bonds of marriage, practiced by welfare queens and absentee fathers, now costs the tax-payer $330 billion per year in welfare payments. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are at epidemic proportions. Only two of the present 25 STDs were around thirty years ago. Now one fourth of teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease, whose treatment costs $17 billion per year. STDs cause one fourth of the cases of female infertility, as well as virtually all cervical and anal cancers. We spend $18 billion a year to treat AIDs patients, and every year 47,000 new cases are discovered. 16,000 Americans die of this deadly disease annually.

Since the Sixties, divorce has liberated many from the “chains” of marriage but has also denied children the blessing of a two-parent home (known to reduce levels of poverty). As free sex and single motherhood have ballooned, so has poverty, producing generations of dependents living on food stamps ($78 billion) and monthly dole payments, costing more than half a trillion dollars since 2007. The program for the resulting impoverished kids, Head Start, which is now recognized as a failure, has cost the tax-payer $180 billion.

Among the always-clever titles of Family Research Council emails, one really nailed it—“Planned Parenthood: Making a Killing.” In the fiscal year 2011– 2012, Planned Parenthood performed 333,964 abortions, and received $542 million in taxpayer funding. They have “liberated” thousands of women from the consequences of their sexual choices, but doomed fifty million unborn babies to the grave. These little ones will never enjoy the freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Freedom to abort on demand now requires companies to pay for abortion-inducing drugs—at the cost both of their conscience and their bottom line.

It was the determined few, the freedom-loving “hippies” who wrenched the culture from its Judeo-Christian roots in the Sixties. Will you, youthful Christian Millennials, hold in the highest esteem both sexual purity and the God who created it? Will you dream of and pray for repentance for the nation and a submission to God’s good will for sexuality and marriage, won at great cost? God, instead of judging us for our desire of freedom from Him, paid the incalculable cost of His dear Son’s life. A society under water needs to hear this incredible good news.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: culture; freedom; liberalism; sexuality

1 posted on 01/22/2013 8:08:44 PM PST by truthxchange
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To: truthxchange

$1.05


2 posted on 01/22/2013 8:17:42 PM PST by GraceG
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To: truthxchange

Thanks for the wonderful article- If you are Peter Jones, I really appreciate the work you are doing, I am a pastor and have written four books myself trying to adress gnosticism in Pentecostal circles. God bless you-


3 posted on 01/22/2013 8:25:57 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
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To: truthxchange

freedom and license are not the same thing.

libertopians are saddened


4 posted on 01/22/2013 8:33:57 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GraceG

5 posted on 01/22/2013 8:44:05 PM PST by EEGator
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To: truthxchange
...and you wont get wise with the sleep still in your eyes,

no matter what you dreams might be...

6 posted on 01/22/2013 8:51:13 PM PST by deadrock
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To: truthxchange
Good article and very true points it makes. I wonder how long it will take - if it ever does - before our society at large recognizes the abysmal failure of its rejection of our Creator's standards for living? Rather than presuming, "God just wants to keep us from having fun.", the Bible is the essential "Owners' Manual" for how best to operate as the beings He created us to be. God loves us and created us to be with Him for eternity, but our rebellion has made us enemies of Him and there IS a huge price. How can we expect to have God's protection and blessings when we live as functional atheists in the world? How pitiful the hypocritical whining and gnashing of teeth whenever something terrible happens in our country - as if God is supposed to be out there keeping everything going good and preventing anything bad from happening! Like we can just take Him off a shelf, dust Him off, and get Him to do what WE want, WHEN we want it. What kind of god do we think we have anyway? A Santa Claus, Fairy Godmother and magic Genie all rolled up into one? And even IF this was the real God, would we respect him or have any kind of esteem for him or would we resent even this kind of god and think him pathetic for being so "easy"?

All this shows is just how rotten we are without Him - that our hearts are desperately wicked and we are powerless to redeem ourselves. Man, left to his own devices, destroys everything that is good or right. It is part of our carnal, mortal and intrinsic human essence and we are doomed unless and until we turn in repentance towards the TRUE God and surrender ourselves to HIS will and follow HIS ways, forsaking our rebellion and admitting we are nothing without Him. Once this happens, we can begin to grow and see things as they really are. Only then, can we together as a nation turn from our wicked ways, seek God's face and pray and he WILL forgive us, heal our land and bless us once again.

7 posted on 01/22/2013 9:16:48 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: truthxchange

Breaking News?


8 posted on 01/22/2013 10:50:58 PM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Chuckster

Yeah, I wonder about that too.


9 posted on 01/22/2013 11:02:17 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Abortion did not "doom fifty million unborn babies to the grave." Abortion doomed fifty million unborn babies to macerator pumps, plastic trash bags, and all sorts of other horrible outcomes too horrible to contemplate.

We are approaching the total human cost of WWII in this country alone, simply for the sake of convenience.

10 posted on 01/22/2013 11:04:42 PM PST by tpmintx (Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
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To: truthxchange

You posted the same twice, in less than a week?


11 posted on 01/22/2013 11:16:35 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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“....total human cost of WWII in this country alone, simply for the sake of convenience...”

50m !! makes 6 million Jews look paltry.

12 posted on 01/23/2013 4:10:05 AM PST by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: Chuckster

You ask if this is breaking news. In one sense no, because the scandal has been going on since the Sixties, (about which few speak), but in another sense, my thinking was provoked by the recent passing of Judge Bork, who was very much aware of this problem.


13 posted on 01/25/2013 9:59:11 AM PST by truthxchange
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