Friday, June 5, 2009

Are We Taking Stupid Pills?

This week it was reported that four teen aged boys sexually abused one of their team mates, in the locker room, with a broom handle and a hockey stick. They did it repeatedly and they will be charged as Adults.

This is horrendous, but it is NOT news. Things like this occur every month in America. Children are used and abused by all sorts of people. Often it is by adults who are charged with protecting them. Not infrequently it is by sexually-charged perverts.

We are shocked when a child is abducted for sex or raped or otherwise sexually abused. But we laugh at the so-called comedy of TV shows which feature sexuallized situations and pay big money to see what used to be called pornography, in Movies and Stage Shows.

We pass laws to protect citizen's from this abuse. But we also pass laws to allow the protection of those who peddle it in Magazines, Books, Songs and Commercials. We protect the right to Free Speech, which now includes pornography, nudity and debauchery. And we market sexual fashions to children as young as 5 years of age.

We have come to accept that young children need to be exposed to sex in the classroom, even homosexuality in Kindergarten [Calif. School District just voted to do this].

If we really wanted to protect children (and others) from Pedaphiles and other abusers we'd get sexual content out of their world. We'd stop the Viagra and Sexual Lubricants Commercials. We'd stop legitimizing selfish, sexual lifestyles. We'd stop mainstreaming aberrant sexual behaviors.

We all know that if you don't want to get burned, you simply stay away from the fire.

It seems the sex-merchants have won. Under the guise of Free Speech, they make commercials that sell their wares and make themselves huge profits. Then use that money and power to convince us that video images don't cause behaviors.

And otherwise reasonable people believe it! Law makers and judges support it! Teachers' unions and medical professionals accept it! Does anyone have the courage to stand up and say this is wrong? For the childrens' sake?

Either stop being outraged at sexual atrocities, or stop programming the society to accept every form of sexual behavior, known to man. We can't have it both ways!