Reaping What We have Sown
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"You will recognize them by their fruits." (Matthew 7:16) ESV
A seismic shock occurred when a Budweiser commercial hit the air depicting a 'sexy' Dylan Mulvaney, a transexual 'woman', in a bubble bath swilling down a Bud-Lite. As it turned out, this Bud was not for you! Corporate took a beating on sales as people boycotted Anheuser-Busch. The company lost $1.4 billion in sales revenue forcing layoffs and losing their long coveted market position as the number one selling beer in America to Modelo Especial. Morally repugnant? I think so, but what is the difference between Mulvaney's commercial and Sidney Sweeney's sexually provocative commercials for jeans and sports betting apps, other than she is a real woman and Dylan is not? Sex sells, just not trans sex? Many commercials previously, have had weird androgynous people running around like in a Bad Bunny concert, so bizarre that it was hard to tell what exactly was being advertised. People seemed to be relieved that we were going back to depicting 'normal' sexually titillating commercials. The sexual revolution has become so mainstream that sexually explicit programming is not shocking anymore, it's expected. Commercials and programs depict same sex couples, salacious ED advertisements and sports betting, which are played during prime time programming slots. I find these commercials to be as morally repugnant as the other, but where is the blow back that Anheuser-Busch experienced? I hear crickets, as a society are we are ok with this? Your children and grandchildren are watching and are innocently being indoctrinated into the sexual revolution. ALL ABOARD!! The 'Crazy Train' is leaving the station and the next stop is Abaddon.
Speaking of Abaddon,'The Cornell 7' sex scandal has made national news notoriety. Arising from a two year old alleged gang rape case that resurfaced after the alleged victim, 'Jane Doe,' filed a civil lawsuit against seven Cornell University, Chi Phi fraternity brothers. The schools internal Title IX inquest resulted in an expulsion, a suspension and one person had to write an essay. The Tompkins County DA did not pursue criminal charges.The blowback on the University, the Campus Police, the local DA and PD has been Jacobean in nature. To further muddy the waters, New York's Governor, Kathy Hochul and Attorney General, Letitia James, inserted themselves into the mix, by re-opening the criminal investigation of the case.(in my opinion warranted, but...) Both of whom have prejudiced themselves against the defendants through previous statements made before their widely aired press conference. Hochul and James are on the ballot for re-election in November, which is less than 30 days away.(A political motive?) Stupid, is what stupid does. The allegations made by 'Jane Doe' and the leaked text messages between all involved, as well as public statements made by both sides make for a boiling cauldron of stew that is confusing, contradictory and morally repugnant. The finger pointing towards who is to blame is rich and believe me there is plenty of it to go around.
Taking a step back, who is to blame,? How did this happen on a prestigious Ivy League campus? Is it the school's libertarian approach to students sexual conduct which includes advice on everything sexual, including fetishes, bondage, sex toys, abortion, birth control and STD tests on demand? Is it New York's sexual assault law that considers consent to be legitimate, when given under the influence of drugs or alcohol? The Federal Government's Title IX's Kangaroo Court laws? A cover up by Campus Police? 'Fraternity culture' on campus?
Here is my take.The seven men and the woman, were bad actors before they ever set foot on campus. To be clear, I am in no way justifying what happened to 'Jane Doe' as her fault; she certainly did not deserve the violence she suffered. The answer is that as a society we have kicked Christianity out of the public square and with it the moral formation and structures that teach and uphold the importance of good character development and virtues.These folks clearly lacked good character, virtuous behavior and moral boundaries. It must be foreign to them that there is, right and wrong, good and evil, absolute truth, and that there is a creator God who is revealed to us through his creation and his written word, the Bible. I can't explain their behavior any other way. From a faith perspective, it is a God-given task for parents to teach our children about right and wrong, restraint and self- control, diligence and discipline, sympathy and justice, loyalty and hard work. If we fail in this task the repercussions can be enormous for the child and more broadly for society itself. Hopefully, we surround our kids with other adults who are Godly influencers such as pastors, the church, teachers, coaches, all of whom can have positive contributions to our children's moral formation. The need for virtue is great in our society because we depend upon citizens who govern themselves and their passions and who lead decent, law-abiding, God fearing lives. Like it or not, Christianity is the cornerstone of our society, if we abandon it, we will see more behaviors like the Cornell sex scandal and worse. We are reaping the rotten fruits of the sexual revolution, a Godless, morally depraved, virtueless society and it's ugly