And I should add, with the television sewage lines that people plumb into their households - with almost every TV show extolling the virtues of sodomy - that has not been a great help either... Filth breeds disease and corruption. Not a big surprise.
And I should add, with the television sewage lines that people plumb into their households - with almost every TV show extolling the virtues of sodomy - that has not been a great help either... Filth breeds disease and corruption. Not a big surprise.
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The anti-decency forces have been very systematic in their propaganda programs, and, unfortunately, they have been very successful.
I am 65, and it just boggles my mind to see how attitudes involving sexual behavior have changed since just 1970. Now, 42 years may sound like a long time to you if you are a young person, but, in terms of vast cultural shifts, it is not a big span of years. Here is my perspective from growing up in the so-called middle class in America.
When I was a teenaged girl in the 1960s, it was assumed that a girl would remain a virgin until she married. Shacking up occurred, but it was rare and the participants were generally not regarded well in respectable society. Some girls were loose, but these comprised a small minority of the population, and their behavior was frowned upon.
Divorces happened, but they were rather uncommon among the general public and seemed to be associated with immoral Hollywood types. Oh, yeah, and, back then, celebrities’ publicists worked very hard to keep their clients’ indiscretions from being made public. Now, shacking up, illegitimate births, and extramarital affairs are no big deal and not the source of shame that they should be.
So much has changed. It still astounds me to have a mother my age or even older, whom I have just met, mention her adult child’s live-in boyfriend or girlfriend in a casual way. These changes in attitude did not just happen spontaneously; there has been a deliberate, relentless assault on our society’s moral underpinnings. And, sadly, the assault is bringing victory for the powers of darkness.