For uncounted milennia, until the 1960s, life was relatively simple. You were born, you grew up, you knew what you would do for the rest of your short life. There were very few options. Young women and men would marry at a young age; having children was a natural, expected, welcome life. Men would usually work in the general category of the jobs that employed their fathers: agricultural, blue-collar, or professional. In America, more than any other country in the history of the world, a man could 'jump' categories, beginning as a poor man, and working himself into a fabulously wealthy man. A woman would usually marry into the same social group of her birth unless she was unusually beautiful or talented, or one of those who never married that were dubbed "Old Maids."
This whole social fabric worked efficiently and well: families were stable, the country of the United States of America was stable, no one thought it would or should change. Growing up, girls were taught what they needed to know to take care of their prospective husbands and children: cooking, cleaning, budgeting, laundry, sewing, and child care. Boys were taught how to earn a living, maybe how to fix a car or lawnmower. It worked well at the time. Before a young woman married, she might work as a secretary or teacher, as a waitress, as a department store clerk, or in a factory. Those were the choices. She never expected to earn as much as a man because she knew her husband would support her and their children. Every woman took great pride in stretching her husband's income to meet the family's needs.
Organized religion was popular, patriotism was high. The media - movies, TV, magazines and books - were 'clean.' Children were allowed to be children; there was a general conspiracy of adults to keep 'evil' from children. Respect of elders was unquestioned, as was respect of most of our leaders. It was a good time, an innocent time. Everyone knew their place in life.
What happened to change this wonderful era? How did our society transform from one of peace and happiness to one of near-total chaos? For one thing, there were areas that 'needed changing:'
segregation by race was truly evil. I regret that it took so many so long to change this in America. Another area that needed changing was the squashed position of women! Women's talents were not being fully used. Women didn't even know they might have talents or wishes beyond the home. (Please see this blog, February 20, 2014, "Double Standard Twisted Back," for an discussion of the sexual revolution of the 60s.)
Personal credit cards were introduced in 1958 and have been the ruination of many families and banks. It is too easy to charge everything the bank will allow! Now our entire nation is so heavily indebted to a foreign country, China, it will require generations for America to get solvent. Credit cards definitely were a deteriorating influence on most of us.
Other very bad influences were the growth of the drug culture and no-fault divorce laws. The way wars were fought changed into Vietnam guerilla tactics. 9/11 swept away all notions that America was safe from foreign attack.
What, in my opinion, was the worst influence in America? It was the unprecidented attack on public morality by the laws of the United States Supreme Court. These few elderly lawyers decided that pornography was acceptable as the new Freedom of Speech. They decided that baby-killing was OK as the Right to Privacy which is not found in our Constitution. They decided that their notion of "equality" was to be the law of the land. Soon the extremists, the liberals, among us, quickly found out that they could force their own "morality" on the rest of us, not by laws, not by public opinion, not by votes, but by challenging existing laws in the courts, and having the money to pursue their causes up to the Supreme Court. We who were traditional and religious, were so shocked by these earthquake opinions of the highest Court, we seem to have been mostly paralyzed for the last 50 years!
There are two Realities the very vocal minority activists would like to ignore: the Worship of the Supreme Being and Human Biology. To be human is to innately know that there is a God who created the universe. Our biology, created by God, has new humans conceived by men and women and nurtured inside their mothers for nine months until born. To deny these realities is, to be blunt, stupid, foolish, ignorant, dangerous!
Those who are trying to put all religion on a shelf for private-only worship of God are substituting another worship: Humanism, which is "self-worship." We cannot allow this! Self-worship, saying that each person should decide his or her own morality, is doomed to ultimately degenerate into anarchy. No sane person wants this.
Those who are trying to force the abandonment of all moral values and encourage sex between any person with any other person (or persons or animals) of any other age are crucifying the traditional family of father, mother, and children. We cannot say, "Well, I wouldn't want to do that but, if you want to, I'll tolerate it as long as it doesn't hurt me personally." We MUST protect our children!!
The question is not, "Will we allow morality to influence our laws?" The question is, "WHICH MORALITY WILL WE ALLOW to influence our laws?" Morality HAS to influence our laws. In the past, this morality has been that of the majority, Judeo-Christian. Will we ALLOW the Humanist morality and religion to influence our laws?
Lord God, creator and lover of us all, we need you now, more than ever, to help us to realize where our blessed America is heading. We need you to give us the strength and will to change the prevalent liberal morality to be good and holy, to worship you and to insist on respect for and legal protection of all our brothers and sisters.
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