Our Neverending Moral Decline

We came across several stories in our ceaseless search for important news that demonstrate our society’s moral decline. Immorality has always existed but it has not always been accepted. Over the years the media’s relentless and ubiquitous in-your-face assault on everything decent has numbed us all to things that were once unacceptable.

Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, was teaching high school in Concord, Mass., in 1988 when the boy, a sophomore, confessed an involvement with a man he had met in a bus station bathroom in Boston. Jennings has written that he told the boy, “I hope you knew to use a condom.”

In a statement issued Wednesday, President Obama’s Director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Kevin Jennings responded to critics calling for Jennings to step down:

Twenty one years later I can see how I should have handled this situation differently. I should have asked for more information and consulted legal or medical authorities.

“Teachers back then had little training or guidance about this kind of thing,” Jennings said. “All teachers should have a basic level of preparedness. I would like to see the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools play a bigger role in helping to prepare teachers.”

“I should have handled this situation differently” You think?

“Teachers back then had little training or guidance about this kind of thing”. Who needs training on this? How about common sense and a sense of decency? The first reaction of people I know would have been to call the police and get help for the student. How difficult is that to figure out?

We might be more sympathetic if Mr Jennings had not been continually boasting about his handling of the incident and the positive effect he had on this young man’s life,  in his published  book as well as  in his talks before gay audiences.  We might be, but I doubt it.

Speaking of difficult things to figure out, Toys”R”Us spokesperson, Whoopi Goldberg, defended child rapist and hollywood filmmaker, Roman Polanski.

Claiming that he wanted to photograph 13-year old Samantha Geimer, Polanski, then 43, plied the girl with champagne and drugs and then, despite her repeated refusals and requests to go home, he raped her.

“I know it wasn’t ‘rape’ rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was ‘rape’ rape,” said Ms. Goldberg on ABC’s (owned by Disney) The View.

Perhaps Toys”R”Us should “fire” fire their spokesperson.  Perhaps we should fire Toys “R” Us as well as Disney.

Disney also owns the ABC Family Channel whose tagline is “A New Kind of Family”.

Meanwhile, Newsweek reporter, Katie Connolly decries Senator Orrin Hatch’s call to reinstate federal funding for abstinence-only sex education:

Let’s face it. Teenagers are going to have sex. They always have, they always will. Sure there will be a decent number of teens who choose to abstain and they should feel supported in that decision, but there will still be a large chunk of teenagers doing the dirty. Making them stop is a fools errand. It’s about as likely a seeing the Pope in a speedo. It’s like asking the Queen to declare her hatred for corgis. It’s not going to happen. Sex education policies should take into account this basic reality and tailor programs that broadly educate teens about their choices, abstinence included. Policies should be set up to work. Anything else is just pointless moralizing.

These casual and fatalistic views have been destroying our way of life and will result in our undoing. Before there were ever governments to rule “civilized” society, there were families consisting of a mother, father, and children. We don’t need a “new kind of family”.

Sources:
Obama’s ‘Safe Schools’ Czar Admits He Poorly Handled Underage Sex Case

Toys”R”Us Spokeswoman Defends Child Rape

Abstinence-Only Education is Back

[Caution: contains explicit reference to sexual acts which may disturb some readers]
Polanski Crime Worse Than People Know

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