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The Sexual Revolution

   Written by on August 7, 2015 at 12:07 pm

Sixty years ago the fears of getting caught, pregnancy, venereal disease, and God kept us sexually chaste. The boundaries the good Lord placed on sex against lust, fornication, rape, divorce, adultery, homosexuality, and pedophilia held firm.

logo-crotts-stephenThen came the 1960s. A rock-and-roll song wailed, “There’s something happening here. What it is is not very clear.” Then another song answered, “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” “Free love.”  “If you dig it, do it.” “Anything goes.”

Indeed. The Pill, penicillin, the automobile, and unbelief felled all boundaries. And Americans became like a nation of yard dogs led about by their passions—sexually indulgent. Sexual expression between a married man and woman for life, the ultimate sacred covenantal bond—became a thing of the past. Casual sex, the “hook-up” culture, took its place.

We quit asking, “What does God think about sex?” We only cared what WE think. Man, after all, is now the measure of all things.

And where has our sexual revolution landed us? In a pornographic heat, a culture of rape, of a majority of kids reared by single mothers—under-parented and not understanding how to relate to authority.

Then there is homosexuality. The average gay lifespan is only 41 years. Hepatitis, AIDS, and a plethora of other diseases afflict so many. They are eight times more likely to be clinically depressed than the rest of the population, seven times more likely to commit suicide, and by age 40, 30% of gay men have had more than 1,000 partners. (apttoteach.org, Hard Questions, “Homosexuality.”)  ( “Bell and Weinberg reported evidence of widespread sexual compulsion among homosexual men. 83% of the homosexual men surveyed estimated they had had sex with 50 or more partners in their lifetime, 43% estimated they had sex with 500 or more partners; 28% with 1,000 or more partners. Bell and Weinberg p 308.)

Our country, you see, has got it wrong. Freedom is not the right to do as you please. It is the right to do what God teaches—in natural law, in the Scriptures.  And true love? It is not to please oneself, indulge the unbridled appetite, but to act in God’s best interest, in one’s own, and in one’s spouse’s best interest.

Perhaps historian Arnold Toynbee put it best to our heavy-breathing, sinful culture: “No nation has long endured that has failed to discipline itself sexually.”

The Reverend Stephen Crotts is pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Charlotte Court House, VA. He is also the director of the Carolina Study Center, Inc., a campus ministry, located in Chapel Hill, NC. Pastor Crotts may be reached at carolinastudycenter@msn.com.

About Stephen Crotts

The Reverend Stephen Crotts is pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Charlotte Court House, VA. He is also the director of the Carolina Study Center, Inc., a campus ministry, located in Chapel Hill, NC. Pastor Crotts may be reached at carolinastudycenter@msn.com.

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