What’s
Next in the Sexual Revolution?
Published in Marietta (GA) Journal, 10/13/19
It’s
doubtful that I would have had a keen awareness of the Sexual Revolution had I
not been around 16 to 20-year olds for the past 52 years. I capitalize the two words because just as
surely as the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Civil
Rights Movement were all social/political game changers in the western world,
so have been the ever changing views of human sexuality.
With a fearful and sad heart I watched at
least five times the video of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam defending
post-birth abortion. Of course
“post-birth abortion” is an illogical expression. If a baby is alive and delivered it can
hardly be aborted, but its life can certainly still be ended, and that’s exactly
what the governor was suggesting.
And
what connection does abortion have to the Sexual Revolution? According to the Guttmacher Institute, over
80% of abortions are for convenience.
Fewer than 1% are done to save the life of the mother. Most of the 80% are by young, unwed mothers.
The
Sexual Revolution began in the late sixties.
Had the Great Depression not halted the Roaring Twenties, it might have
begun sooner. This ongoing revolution
has denied the importance of home, re-defined marriage and family, reduced all
sexual morality to “consent,” and exchanged common sense and science for
ideology.
Believe
it or not there is a political candidate who is challenging the revolution. He too is a doctor, a former veterinarian and
now a general practice physician. A
third-term Congressman from northeastern Louisiana’s 5th district, Dr. Ralph
Abraham is a happy cultural warrior. The
good doctor dares to speak exactly what he believes, addressing what he calls
“the absence of common sense in all of the gender and transgender talk.”
“I’ve
delivered babies for years and I can tell you that in every case I’ve turned to
their parents and told them they have a boy or a girl,” the doctor- politician
recently stated.
Dr. Abraham’s strong stand has not hindered
his present race for governor of Louisiana.
It has, however, made me wonder why more politicians and doctors as well
don’t speak out for sanity in all things sexual. The Sexual Revolution has delivered disease
and sexual chaos. It has normalized the
abnormal. Even so there is silence
everywhere.
Ok,
let’s forget about those silly, outdated ideas about traditional marriage,
monogamy, and marital fidelity. Let’s go
libertine and do just anything we wish.
What’s wrong with trouples, or polyamory, or incest? That’s right, incest. Does anyone think incest is not in the agenda
of the sexual libertines? Some of us
need to do a little more reading.
And
parents need to do a lot more inquiring, in the schools of California,
Washington state, Massachusetts, and Virginia for sure, but coming soon to the
schools in your area as well. For that
we can thank the LGBQT lobby, the criers for “transgender studies,” the ACLU,
the American Psychological Association which long ago left its academic purpose,
and quite a few religious denominations that have traded orthodox faith for “diversification,”
diversification meaning not different cultures but a departure from
Judeo-Christian values that western culture has championed for two millennia.
Suffice
it to say that modern society cannot countenance any restraint on sex. No limitations, no boundaries either. Surely there are more than two genders. Tell your son he can be a girl. Get free from nature and nature’s God. Cut loose from marital fidelity and from
matrimony itself. Give Oscars to those
who depict blood, gore, and the raunchiest sex, but who would never show a
video of an abortion. Appoint judges
who, un-tethered from the written law, sally off to invent new “rights.”
Traditionalists
have spoken much of family but perhaps too little of “household,” a word that
sends leftists into cardiac arrest. The
culture needs families, but families need a place, that is, a community. Even gangs have a place where work is shared and
belonging is experienced. Ponder how a
sense of place, where meals are shared and talk is plentiful, might alleviate
the loneliness that leads so many teens down the wrong sexual path. Ponder the great need for community and
political leaders to speak out on sexual chaos as the Louisiana
doctor-politician is doing.
The
beast of perversion is at America’s door.
Guardrails are needed. It will
take parents, grandparents, pastors, teachers, and straight talking politicians
to restore them. I doubt that I could
have hope for restoration if I had not gazed into the eyes of so many lonely
and aimless young people who yearned for something more than what the culture
was giving them.
Restore the guardrails
we must.
Roger Hines
10/9/19
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