We live in a time of opinion polls. This is not to say that this is a new phenomenon but that it seems they drive our society more today than I can ever remember. Used to be polling agencies lived on political campaigns and scrounged for business in between. Sometime in the last 10 years that changed and now hardly a day goes by that the news media isn't trumpeting statistics from a variety of polls on an unlimited number of subjects. It seems that they are telling us what we are thinking and nobody seems to be questioning their validity.
A perfect example is public opinion concerning same sex marriage. Through a coalition between the mainstream media and gay/lesbian groups it seems that the American public is in favor of it. Of course five years ago we were overwhelmingly against it. What changed? Did all of the "homophobes" leave the planet, one way or another? Did God speak to his people saying "I was just kidding about that abomination thing, it's cool"? The best I can read the bible still says the same things it did the first time I read it. And yet you have Protestant denominations embracing the gay/lesbian lifestyle in their clergy. The Boy Scouts today decided to allow openly homosexual boys into their troops. It seems that everyone has their finger in the air trying to anticipate which way the wind is blowing so they can make sure that is the way they are going as well.
I ask again what changed? Did 30% of the heterosexuals in this country all of a sudden decide to try the other side of the fence? No, I don't think so. How did it become cool to be gay?
The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind.........
The moral fiber of our country is gone. The nuclear family is an oddity these days and you better not say that it takes a mother AND a father to raise a child!The definition of family in our society seeks to absolve everyone of the stupid mistakes they make and to legitimize these mistakes. The stigma of being a dumb ass has been removed and it is being celebrated!
And who learns the lessons that society is teaching us today? That would be the next generation. Because Susie having two mommies or two daddies is supposed to be just fine. The boundaries are falling hard! What are "traditional families" supposed to teach their children? Is any behavior beyond the pale?
I was raised during a time of black and white. Right and wrong. Good and evil. Behaviors that went against the teachings of the Bible were considered wrong and evil. The last thing you did was to glorify these behaviors!
Today, however, there is no right or wrong. If the clerk gives you back the wrong change you keep it. Old Joe fathers several children in the community and fails to take responsibility for any other them but that's okay. Teenagers change sexual partners more frequently than they do their underwear. In this age of moral relativism it doesn't matter. And that makes me sad.
The genesis of the above rant was the decision made by the Boy Scouts today. It was not totally unexpected but disappointing nonetheless. I was a Boy Scout from age 8 to 14. If working had not become more important I would have probably made Eagle. Scouting was very important to me during that time and helped to keep me going in the right direction. It was always a good compass for me and millions of other boys since 1912. It was a constant that I thought would be there indefinitely, I guess. But today they waived the white flag of surrender to political correctness. It is merely a formality before gay leaders will be running the show. How long will it be before they remove God from it?
Listen, you can call me what you want, I can take it. My values and principles do not change because Gallup says everyone else did. I know the basis of my beliefs and those have not changed either. God will sort it all out soon enough and I will put my money on my positions any day!
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You pick and choose which of the Bible's many many things to follow. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/13-things-the-bible-forbids_n_1327701.html
Hell, Dad, you're married to a divorced woman...I think the Bible frowns on that pretty hard!: "Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery."
Excluding innocent little boys from your club in the name of righteousness doesn't uphold virtue. If they were black, that wouldn't be a problem either? Oh, I forgot. That's the Masons.
Your mother was married before? I had no idea? I always thought your brothers were immaculately conceived.
Seriously, you miss the point of my blog. The Boy Scouts, a private club, should be able to set any criteria for membership they choose. If you disagree with those criteria or don't meet them then you aren't a Boy Scout. I would think that the number of boys that are impacted by this change is extremely small. This was really about one group exerting their will over another.
The Masons thing really eats you up, doesn,'t it? Do a little research, darling. The Free & Accepted Masons is an exclusively black fraternal order that was formed, grew, and is dying right along side the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons (the evil white Masons). The difference between the groups is that some white lodges exclude blacks but all black lodges exclude whites. But black people can't be racists, can they? And Masonic charities, the evil white people, serve all people.
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