Perversion In America

"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." ~ James A. Forude

I rarely reference radio programs I've heard to create a blog post, but this item from the Laura Ingraham show is such an important subject, I thought I'd offer it up for discussion.

Start by reading the following article:

The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School

Researchers find it shocking that 11 percent of American girls between 15 and 19 claim to have same-sex encounters. Clearly they've never observed the social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen.

Read the rest here. If you don't have very much time, you may want to come back and read it when you do have time. It is important that you read the entire article.

What has happened to society in America? Why have morals descended into the toilet?

When did this absence of any kind of shame or modesty begin, and what was the impetus of it all?

I would suggest much of it was the influence of the Hugh Hefner Playboy magazine libertarian mindset which first pervaded our previously Christian culture in the 50's. A culture once dominated by a respect for God, and a belief in an afterlife and of a judgment by the Creator of the Universe, in which each of us will stand before the throne of God and give an accounting of our lives. And fear of hearing those terrible words, "Depart from me, you accursed, I never knew you."

A culture that is no more.

There are some who would suggest that the acceptance of immorality in our culture is a natural progression brought on by enlightenment through intellectual study and discourse. But is it really enlightenment? Maybe it's arrogance.

Some will say the readiness of the young people in our society to accept the changes in our morality is a good thing, that it frees them from the confines of bigotry and intolerance. And maybe it does.

But at what price?

Some will also say it didn't begin with Playboy Magazine, that pornography existed long, long before that, and that's true, also. But Playboy brought immorality into the mainstream. When we, as teenagers and young adults, happened to get our hands on one of those infamous "French Postcards" back in the 50's and 60's, we knew we were indulging in something that was frowned upon by polite society. It was part of the excitement.

Playboy was the impetus that changed our attitudes as a society. And it has become worse year after year.

Today that kind of behavior seems to be celebrated, even encouraged in some cases.

Is there seriously anyone reading this that would say American society is better off with this new lack of morality? If these were your kids, would you be ok with it? I can just hear some radical feminist or "enlightened" Liberal saying, "Well, I don't believe I should impose my standards and morals upon my children. I believe they should make up their own mind about what is right and what is wrong for them when they become adults. It is not my responsibility to tell them what is moral and what is not."

Does anyone really think that won't screw up their children?

We have seen magazines go from what once was a form of not quite erotic art, to photos of females in full frontal nudity poses, to photos of men and women, women and women, orgies, and perversion, the likes of what we never even imagined a scant 20 years ago.

Within the last two decades, we have seen movies go from furtive shots of a bare female back, to shots of female breasts, to full frontal nudity, to feature length, beginning to end, sex acts between men and women, women and women, men and men, and even people with animals.

We have the advent of the internet, and the ability to record these movies and watch them in the privacy of our own homes, allowing us to be "closet perverts", even though, these days, if you are not out in the open and sharing your perversion, you are considered abnormal.

Even video games are getting in on the act. Parents have no idea what is in those video games that they buy for their kids.

Radio and television shows are pushing the sexual envelope, each station and broadcasting company trying to get away with slightly more than the other guys. Censors are becoming the endangered species of broadcasting.

Now we have sattelite radio, which enables "shock jocks" like Howard Stern to abandon all moral conventions, and our kids are listening. And what's worse, we don't care!

We find sex on billboards, in magazine ads, and people walking around in public nearly nude. Not to mention all the people who have no decorum in public regarding their gutter language. As I type this there is a woman sex expert on TV talking quite frankly about male and female body parts, and sex toys, in graphic detail.

And people have minimized what sex really is. I've even heard people say oral sex isn't really sex. This is what we are teaching our kids.

Even the public schools are teaching kids that sex is perfectly ok as long as it is "safe sex".

It is no wonder that there are so many STD's and unwanted pregnancies in the world.


Does anyone still think these attitudes have no effect on our children? Or worse yet, Does anyone think this is a good thing?

For those of you who think this is not a problem, that I am overstating the seriousness of the problem, or that there is no loss of morality, do this experiment:

Turn on your TV. Turn the channel to the TV Land channel and watch whatever show is on. "Leave it to Beaver", "Father Knows Best", "Andy Griffith", "Bonanza", etc. Watch "The Dick Van Dyke Show". That one was cutting edge for it's time. Watch any of them or all of them.

Then, turn the channel again, and watch "Will and Grace" or "Friends" or "The Shield". Watch any reality show on MTV or VH-1. Watch Comedy Central afer prime time. Even the cartoon network goes into the moral toilet during overnight hours, called "Adult Swim". Those cartoons would shock my mother into heart failure.

Compare the two.

Convinced yet? If not, repeat the exercise. Do it again. And again.

If you aren't convinced now, turn in your membership card to the "Common Sense Club."

And stay away from my kids.