Virtue Is Now A Liability

   The Bible takes a strong stand in favor of virtue. It equates virtue with strength and condemns those who would pervert it.
   Isaiah, Chapter 5, is an example:
   Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!  Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 

    Virtue is moral excellence; goodness; righteousness. In a world where there are no objective standards of morality, however, virtue becomes a word; a concept significantly out of step.

   Today, we view the person who advocates for 'women's rights' as virtuous. Of course the phrase, 'women's rights' is a euphemism for infanticide. The same is true of 'equality of the sexes,' which is increasingly a phrase in support of homosexual behavior. 

   Candace Cameron [Full House] wrote a book and in the interview with a notably liberal website stated that she had chosen submission to her husband as the preferable option, since her goal was to "do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work."

   Imagine my shock when this liberal website [and consequently a Morning TV News Anchor] were aghast that anyone would do such a thing! The News Anchor, being homosexual, is to be understood. That Christians -- or at least those who attend church -- would also be surprised / outraged? at this obvious throw-back to medieval values, is a bit more difficult to swallow.

   Not that long ago, Bill Bennett published a Book of Virtues. That books was a Best Seller on the New York Times List, for several weeks. Today, those virtues are under attack as a social liability. The result of a social shift toward greater freedom of expression.

   What has all this Liberation brought us? Tattooed Women & children; Public use of profanity; Public nudity; Fashionable Fornication; Acceptable Adultery; The Abandonment of Decency and Honesty.

   To support all this debauchery, it's supporters must destroy the voices of reason and morality. Their philosophy cannot support itself. The more it is exalted, the more destructive it is to society. So they shout louder! Condemn more vociferously. 

   The only thing that shocks this society, now, is public demonstrations of Virtue! That these demonstrations are NOT flowing from our churches tells us where we are and where we're headed.