Standards

It seems that many people have little or no standards these days.  I wonder why that is?  Have we all fallen as a race of people, willing to accept whatever we have to in order to succeed in the things that we like?  I hope that's not the case.  I hope that we haven't all taken a step back on the ladder of decency.  I read about people setting victims on fire, then laughing as they scream.  It saddens me for the victim-who was white and one of the reason you never read about him-but it saddens me for our whole world.
Is this the place that we want to leave to our children?  This hate filled, orgiastic, swarm of moral relativism?  So much for 'if it feels good do it', because this is where that dark road had left us. I read a great book about shame dying, and I took it to heart.  While I don't think that people should be ostracized for their choices, I also don't think that some of them should be celebrated either.
I wasn't married when I gave birth to my second son.  I could have been, his useless father and I could have married at any time, we just put it off until Jamey was almost four.  I regret that now, I should have never married him in the first place.  Oh well.  Who has the magic glasses that spot the lying adulterous cheaters?  I could have used those.  But back to standards.
We accept many things today that we never would have as a society even twenty years ago.  I don't understand how anyone can defend delivering a child partially, and then inserting a needle into his or her brain and murdering that baby.  But we as a people allow that to happen every day.  We allow murder, rape, and disrespect almost constantly on television.
There was a time that I watched a lot of sitcoms, and from that, I thought that it was okay to be rude to my family, rude to the world.  Watch any episodic television from the seventies or eighties and what did you see?  Smart mouthed children, hapless adults, rudeness not only encouraged, but glorified.  If one of my children said any of the things that I hear on television to me, I would probably punish them.
Homosexuality is another standard that we seem to be looking the other way with.  I don't care who you have sex with- so long as it is consensual and legal.  But believe me when I tell you, I don't want to know anything else about it, either.  Keep it to yourself and don't make me have to explain to my children about things that they don't need to know about while they are still children.  Make a will if you want  to leave your stuff to your partner.  If you are determined to dress up for a ceremony- rent a hall, buy your outfits, send out invitations and have fun.  But don't make our society as a whole worse off by lowering our standards. Some things just aren't right.
Please don't try that whole segregation argument, or suffrage, because to quote a movie "that dog won't hunt."  NO where in the Bible does it say to treat a person differently because of their skin color.  It specifically tells us to honor and love women.  It also spells out the consequences of homosexuality, and none of them are good.  This isn't an "evolving" issue.  It was wrong yesterday.  It is wrong today.  It will be wrong tomorrow.
Even if you don't believe in God, there are things that are wrong simply because they are.  No amount of exposure to it will change that. We had better start holding people accountable to standards, or we are all going to be out of luck soon.
Think about it.  You'll thank me later.