A pernicious scourge has been unleashed across our land in the form of vile sexual images aimed at the young people of the nation and the growth of the scourge continues to escalate in all areas of our social fabric. One would think that the vileness is being propagated for the most part in the back alley porno parlors, sex shops, and on the internet. If you think that, then you are out of touch. Some of worst material is being promoted by public schools and stocked in their libraries under the guise of education.

In Fayetteville, Arkansas, the school board is allowing material that would make a sailor blush to be made available to students since the adults claim that knowledge is what schools are about. The librarians have taken umbrage that anyone would challenge their decisions on what is and isn’t appropriate for children to view. Many parents have thrown a fit, not that they want the books removed, but that it is censorship to remove them.

Several issues are involved in the further descent into debauching society. First, there isn’t any argument that schools are about knowledge, but in this instance, the kind of knowledge must be viewed, not only as suspect, but intolerable as well. Kids can learn all kinds of inappropriate stuff on their own without schools making it available to them. The next issue deals with the mind set of adult librarians who think it is okay to offer the filth to students. Have they allowed professional dictates to override morals and the responsibility that goes with guiding the young?  And the last issue concerns the parents who don’t seem to care that their children read the garbage. What does that say about the mentality of and the morals of the parents? Does the question really require a written or spoken answer that should be obvious to all?

It is natural for children to be curious about all kinds of activities, including sex. It is also the responsibility of adults to guide the young into discovering wholesome knowledge about the proper role of sex in the human experience. Tragically, as God has been shoved further to the side in all areas of life, debauchery has taken up residence in God’s place and that residence is found in the minds of the people who should be guiding the young into proper paths of morality, the educators and the parents of the nation.

It is ironic that the government is trying to stop all types of child predators, both in person and on the internet, and then allows the schools to promote all forms of sexual information under the name of rights and education. The vile literature runs the gamut from the promotion of homosexuality to other sex acts that should be confined to marriage and practiced in the privacy of the married couple’s home (and that doesn’t include homosexual marriages either).

Morally oriented parents are deemed bigots, Jesus freaks, intolerant, insensitive and worse by the enlightened of the day. If the truth be known, those who are promoting the literature and activities are using the young for the promotion of their own perverse, hedonistic, depraved pleasure, calling it education. It is education for sure, but the wrong kind.

When children are told to grow up and be mature, we have the specter of adults who have a problem with that very facet of life. In Sorting It Out it can be said that those who are promoting the perverse things of life are nothing short of being immature themselves; ones who have never outgrown the natural curiosity of youth and has allowed perversion to take over their lives instead of becoming mature adults, guiding in proper ways the children whom are under their charge and care in the homes and public schools.

© 04-09-2006 DEC