Posted on 02/16/2012 1:30:30 PM PST by ReformationFan
Of all the hubbub rightly surrounding the healthcare mandate handed down from the imperial throne of Barack Obama, one aspect of this issue has not been sufficiently discussed: the disturbing fact that sex has now made its way into nearly all aspects of American life. Many have written of the clash between First Amendment rights and those who would seek to curb them, while others have debated the moral evils of abortion, but few have sought to plumb the cause of it all: our national descent into the sexual gutter.
Without doubt or question, sex rules our airwaves, satellites and all the forms of human communication which comprise our leisure time. The subject of sex dominates our children's education and overflows into the fields of sports, music and the so-called arts. It is indeed impossible to watch or listen to any form of entertainment without being bombarded with direct or indirect references to, or advertisements for, sex; its attainment, its glorification or the improvement of its 'performance.'
When we speak of sex this does not, of course, refer to what was once known as conjugal love; that which in an ordered society is a beneficial and great moral good. No, the modern conception of sex is that exercise of bodily functions which exists only for the use of human beings by other human beings solely as instruments of physical pleasure; often perversely so.
This desire for unfettered access to sex is probably one of the greatest reasons for this country's unfortunate descent into the realms of atheism and agnosticism.
(Excerpt) Read more at renewamerica.com ...
Viagra should never have been on the insurance list either.
Oh goody. Another Nanny State busybody claiming to be a conservative who wants to regulate what consenting adults can do in the privacy of their own homes.
Not a right only in the sense that food, water and oxygen are not rights either.
In the old days, people had a good grip on things. They took matters into their own hands.
Did you actually read the article itself? And when the rest of us have to pay for the consequences of what the “consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes”, i.e., (their abortions, their out of wedlock children, health treatments for their STDs, trampling of 1st Amendment religious liberties, etc.), then yes it does become the public’s business.
Sex between consenting adults is nobody’s damn business.
Asking me to pay for someone’s poor decisions is indeed my business.
It’s funny how Conservatives are FALSELY accused of wanting to put their noses in everyone’s bedroom, while the opposite is acutally true.
They knew how to argue, they were master debaters.
Where do we stop legislating consequences of peoples actions? What about fat people or smokers, they cost us money too. Your way leads us down a slippery slope of nanny date gov't watching and legislating everything we do.
The only way is to start changing peoples actions is through showing a better way, Install values in kids from a young age etc.
“Where do we stop legislating consequences of peoples actions? What about fat people or smokers, they cost us money too. Your way leads us down a slippery slope of nanny date gov’t watching and legislating everything we do.”
It’s not MY way. It’s THE way it will happen in reality. We all know it. Personally speaking, I’d be perfectly happy for individual folks who are smokers, obese and sexually promiscuous to be solely responsible for their own financial responsibilities concerning the consequences of their behaviors but that’s never going to happen. It will be the taxpayers and the consumers who will be paying for it.
“The only way is to start changing peoples actions is through showing a better way, Install values in kids from a young age etc.”
I completely agree there.
I think I see your problem. Quit forcing me to pay to clean up other peoples messes and leave me the hell alone.
That’s certainly a logical consequence of that point of view. I figure it will soon be a right to “date, marry and/or have sex with anyone I want” regardless of whether the other party or parties involved are consenting or not.
And it's my wife's inalienable right to have a perpetual headache.
More or less. While the rest of us get to pay for the “free” health care of “Kolanda” and her 7 out of wedlock “chiluns.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIw5_a_jI0o
I agree with this 100%. I thought you were coming from the angle of wanting to legislate what people do behind bedroom doors.
Thus we see how when Government is in charge of health care there will be a “compelling government interest” in regulating every minute aspect of our lives.
After all - the rest of us will have to pay for the consequences!
No double bacon cheeseburger for YOU!
No unlocked firearms!
No riding a bike without a helmet!
No running with scissors!
No having sex without a condom!
Etc, etc, etc.
That is what is known as the “slippery slope” argument. Great job!
Trust me on this ...
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