Finally, a liberal who is starting to get it...
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With casual attitudes prevailing and without shame or guilt to limit risky behavior, it is no wonder that sixth graders and even younger children are doing drugs, drinking and engaging in sex.
It is no wonder then that evangelicals are pounding the pavement during political campaigns. It is not surprising that their preachers are advising their flocks to vote a righteous ticket. It is even understandable, God forbid, that they want to make America into a theocracy.
To stem these dangerous possibilities, it would be provident for liberals and others not used to protesting popular culture's excesses to put the lid on things. Teaching in an upper middle class community, I often wished that parents would stop providing limousines for their children's birthday parties and eighth-grade graduations. I wished that parents had instilled a sense of shame into the kid who bragged about his condom collection. He was one of my most talented students, but distracted by sex and pot, he never even went to college.
It is scary out there, and to accommodate all sorts of people in our diverse society, including our evangelical and Pentecostal brothers and sisters, maybe we could all make a better effort to raise our children with a sharper sense of right and wrong. That would go a long way toward creating a less salacious popular culture.
