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.
I agree one hundred percent. There has been a severe cultural shift (or slide) since the 1960s. I attribute this to a couple of generations of children being indoctrinated by communistic and atheistic leaning teachers, as well due to the raw sewaged piped into our households by the Media industry. All of this allowed by the parents.
Although I seem to pick on the sodomites quite frequently, that is primarily because this is a 'sin' (or disease -- and one that was rightfully classified as a mental disorder until 1968) that has become celebrated through parades and postive reinforcement through the Media messaging. At least we don't have parades for adulterers and drunks in that there seems to be some small degree of shame left with that behaviour.
But, you are right, open fornication and promiscuity has shed it's veil of shame, and today it is considered 'normal'. 'Of course the kiddies are going to have sex, so we must provide them condoms, and sex education'. Quite the shame that the formerly great America, which was great because it feared God, has chosen to wallow in the mud. Romans 1 at work.