Posted on 05/17/2008 11:12:16 AM PDT by Graybeard58
People gaze in disbelief at the cultural landscape — all the divorce, cohabitation, promiscuity, sexually transmitted disease, single moms, ill-mannered children, failing public schools, substance abuse, domestic violence, abortions, pornography and incivility — and can't fathom how America fell this far this fast.
No one event triggered this devolution, but it undeniably was pushed along many times by the moral relativism of the last 50 years, when most of society's widely accepted norms were undermined by the quicksand of nonjudgmentalism; when the concepts of right and wrong, good and bad, were abolished in favor of differences that were to be respected if not celebrated, and codified when necessary to surmount widespread public opposition.
Paradoxically, people and institutions whose beliefs do not permit them to tolerate the most abhorrent differences were judged to be evil. Through rigid enforcement of increasingly fascist speech and thought codes, relativists turned America into a nation of lip-biters who with their silence condoned as normal behaviors and beliefs that are irrefutably unnatural and inherently immoral.
At every step of this long downward cultural march were men and women in black robes, activist judges eager to take out another of society's underpinnings under the guise of some spurious, high-sounding goal. And at every step, relativists declared that the latest judicial fiat freeing another genie of man's worst impulses would, inexplicably, make society stronger, fairer, safer, better.
Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage followed the script, but was at best redundant — its Massachusetts counterpart broke this ground four years ago with the identical one-vote margin — and was more symbolic than significant. Homosexuals already enjoy all of the rights and benefits of traditional marriage under California law, which treats homosexuality and heterosexuality as functional equivalents.
No, the ruling merely answered homosexuals' purely emotional plea for cultural acceptance by giving civil unions their proper label — "marriage" — the will of Californians, as democratically expressed twice, and the dark societal consequences be damned. Far from being a seminal ruling, the decision merely inched the homosexual agenda ahead and drove yet another nail in the culture's coffin.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. In just a few years Christians will be prosecuted for denouncing sin. Doing that will be a “hate” crime.
Churches will be picketed on Sundays. Take a look at what Code Pink is doing to the Marine recruiting center in Berkerly. That’s the future for Christians.
Take the template government has used to stop smoking, apply it to churches. That’s the future.
I'm old enough to remember when being unwed and pregnant was shameful and unwed mothers were looked down upon. The men or boys who impregnated them deserved condemnation too but didn't get it.
In my high school, if a girl even got married she had to quit school. Now some public schools have day care for the children of students.
My daughter teaches at a public high school and a couple of years ago in one of her classes she had 3 pregnant 16 year old girls, one with her second child.
Where's the shame?
I think it’s good for a Christian to be persecuted. Strengthens faith.
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Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Good stuff, thank you for the read.
Suffering is good for the soul to a point. What I’m saying is that the Religion clause of the first amendment is being twisted to mean freedom from religion.
That’s the future.
Giving legal status to a neurotic aberration can’t be good for society that’s for sure.
In the noble effort to remove the unfair stigma of illegitimacy from the innocent children who did not ask to be born of unwed parents, society went overboard and excused the parents as well. Bad move. Without the stigma, and with the government assistance that made it more lucrative to be an unwed mother than a married one for many young women at lower income levels, came the explosion. Soon, as benefits “for the children” expand like in the U.K., there will be no good reason for anyone to marry except childless homosexuals in love. WESTERN CULTURE IS TOAST.
We have to admit that both those on the right and those on the left look to the government to legislate morality.
Look at anti-gay marriage laws.
That isn’t from the left, it is from the right.
Is government the answer?
I don’t think it can be blamed on one person.
I agree that the stigma on bearing an illegitimate child has disappeared. It is merely quibbling over details to argue about whether that came first or acceptance of divorce came first. The point is, if we are to stop this slide, action needs to be taken.
If the Republicans are to make morality an issue, they need to clean their own house first.
add me please
“Yes it did: Bill Clinton’s election in 1992. We were gliding down a river before - the Clintons were Niagara Falls.”
Yup. When that reprobate said that fellatio was not a sex act it was the nail in the coffin. The Clintons told the world’s children that lying, cheating, adultery, stealing, promiscuity, and corruption were okay. Then on top of that the sonuvabitch sold top secret technology to a country that had declared in its f***ing platform that the United States was its sworn enemy!
The Scripture descirbes the times very accurately:
2 Timothy 3:1-5
3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers
of God;
3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from
such turn away.
I’ve been persecuted during and since college for my beliefs and frankly too much of it is NOT a good thing. My beliefs are neither strengthened or weakened. They are exactly the same.
I’ve been persecuted during and since college for my beliefs and frankly too much of it is NOT a good thing. My beliefs are neither strengthened or weakened. They are exactly the same.
What is an “anti-gay marriage law?”
“Take the template government has used to stop smoking, apply it to churches. That’s the future.”
No, we would have had a revolution before then.
Actually, it started long before Monica. Hollywood took Clinton’s election as a sign that the 60’s counterculture was at last triumphant, and that they had license to embed all of its values in their products. Which is also part of the reason why their hatred for GWB is so white-hot and irrational - they felt it was a step backwards from their cultural goals.
There won’t be a revolution because first they will take away the guns.
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