Why Family Values?

What's the world coming to when good, strong wholesome family values are being attacked each day. I'm far from ancient, but I'm no Spring Chicken either, so I can still remember a time when people woke on Sunday morning, dressed in their best (and women never wore pants), and went to church for worship. The preacher could teach about the sins of the world straight from God's mouth to the congregation's ears. They actually read the Bible, and what it said was practiced and the government, nor anyone else stepped in to legislate it.

However, today, it seems the majority dress in their best to show up at Starbucks for a morning cup of that special seven dollar chocolate decaf latte with whatever else they can throw into it, and God is only a word placed in a quote to grace the billboard of an atheist who doesn't believe there is a God. What is that ole saying, "In battle, there are no atheists in a foxhole." Oh, and government, today if the preacher even mentions that homosexualism is a sin, which according to the Word of God is, the church is preaching hate and risks loosing their non-profit status. So, now what happened to government staying out of the church?

The sixties was the beginning of the downfall of the moral fiber of this country. It was all about free love, drugs, and STD's. Dr. Spock was telling people how to raise their children without discipline and saying, "no", to them, because that inhibited their ability to explore and express themselves. Well, I've got news for Dr. Spock, the only thing I found his book any good for was putting it to the seat of the problem when my child misbehaved. That my dear readers, was the beginning of the end.

That free love turned into a rash of unwanted pregnancies and less responsibility and more welfare. Momma always said, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk free!" Sure, even back in Victorian times you had your incidents, that's been going on since the beginning of time, but the little darling was shipped off to Aunt Sue's in Connecticut for the summer, not paraded through town as if she were a Gold Medal Olympic winner. Shame was placed upon her head, and that was to be an example for others like her. Or, the man took responsibility and married the girl, like he should, and the baby was premature. That's what you call checks and balances.

The need to return to those wholesome family values is upon us today as we see families strewn from one part of the country to the next. Kids today aren't taught that first you date, then your marry, and after that comes the baby carriage. They are thrown into a school that insists on teaching kindergarten children about sex. What's up with that? Let's just legally, through the school, destroy what little innocence these children have.

Marriage is sacred and has a purpose. As I've said before, we set examples for our children because they imitate everything. They are taught by our examples, and that is why the moral fiber of the family is so important. It shapes our conscience when we are taught right from wrong. It shapes our country when mommy and daddy (not Mary's two mommies, or Johnny's two daddies) teach the ten commandments to their children.

The Mosaic law was meant to structure a society, don't steal, don't kill, don't lie, and it sure wasn't meant to offer up a soft-fuzzy name for those who did. I had a brother-in-law who when he was needing a roof over his head would get arrested because it provided him "three hots and a cot". Discipline is meant for those who disobey, and it wasn't meant to be fun.