Posted on 03/18/2015 9:23:05 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Morality may be ignored, but it never ceases to provide the foundation and guidelines for a healthy society.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.” —John Adams (1735 - 1826), second President of the U.S.A.
It’s hard to consider the success of the book and film “Fifty Shades of Grey” without thinking that America has become morally bankrupt in terms of its views toward sexuality and, of course, in other ways as well.
At about the same time I was thinking this, a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal had an article titled “Unmarried…With Children.”
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That is why people who demonstrate an aversion toward morality (e.g. proponents of abortion, homosexuality, and charity by theft) are preeminently disqualified from voting and effecting public policy in the United States.
Culture determines more than economics. We need to restore both the culture and the economy.
Morality simply means right vs. wrong.
Leftists claim to be moral reletivists, but of course they aren’t.
Political correctness is simply them attempting to impose their moral code on everybody else.
That is doesn’t involve sexual morality is not relevant to the basic issue.
The truth is that once society turns the corner it can never go back.
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