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Culture Wars: The Winning Side
Culture Challenge of the Week: The Left declares victory
"The culture wars are over, and the Republicans lost." So says liberal columnist John Alter.
He's not the only one declaring victory. Over at the Daily Beast, one columnist judged the Republican Party as "flat-out nuts" for taking on social issues and mocked Rick Santorum as "a refugee from the 16th century." And Andrew Sullivan takes things a step further, saying that "Republicans are losing the pop culture wars" played out in music, movies, and art. And Salon, the predictable liberal voice, shrills about "the Right's lost causes" and claims victory.
So what have they "won?"
Let's look at two examples of the 'achievements' wrought by liberalism:
Fractured families and a soaring out-of-wedlock birth rate. The liberals' mantra that 'there's nothing inherently better about a married mom and dad raising their own kids' has produced dismal results. According to new data from Child Trends, and reported in the New York Times, 53% of children born to women under 30 (the age group that is responsible for two-thirds of the birth rate) are now born out of wedlock. And, tragically, the leading cause of poverty in America is single motherhood.
Other predictable results for children born outside the stable structure of marriage? Educational deficits, greater risks of emotional, psychological, and behavioral problems. And the problems are not evenly distributed: minorities and women with only a high-school education reflect startlingly high rates of unmarried births: 73% of African-Americans are born to single mothers and only 43% of women whose highest level of education is high school will give birth within marriage. Those least equipped to overcome the long odds of unmarried parenthood are the most likely to shun marriage. In some schools and neighborhoods, the next generation of children will not only grow up without the stability of marriage, they also will encounter few examples of intact, married families. It's a situation that's tragic for the children, destabilizes society, and swells the ranks of folks dependent on government handouts for a steady monthly income.
That's victory?
Meaningless sex and soaring STD rates. The left's triumph on the sexual front is empty indeed. Columnist Michael Lind boasts that, "Now practically anything can be viewed on PCs and phones, and most award-winning dramas feature profanity and softcore sex scenes that would have provoked nationwide protests a few decades ago. This is a triumph for libertinism, if not liberalism."
As a result, children have little protection from adult sexual indulgence. The fruit? Children exposed to sexual content are more likely to have sex earlier, generating a spiral of negative consequences, even apart form pregnancy and abortion. Forty percent of sexually active teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease. Among minorities, those rates are even higher -- and as STD rates skyrocket, cures are becoming less likely. Gonorrhea, for example, is fast becoming resistant to the antibiotics currently used to treat it. The sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV) -- which has already been identified as the cause of most cases of cervical cancer, now appears to be causing an increase in oral and throat cancer as well. Add to all this the tragedy of young human hearts who experience sex merely as animalistic gratification; they never learn the tender connection between sex, commitment, and self-giving love.
This is what victory looks like? And I haven't even mentioned President Obama's record-breaking 3.8 trillion dollar budget or his disastrous "lead from behind" foreign policy.
How to Save Your Family: Fight hard – And vote to win
America literally cannot survive another four years of destruction inflicted by elite Leftists.
Faith, family and freedom-loving Americans have always been willing to sacriice to protect what we hold dear. We don't have to go to war or risk our lives in this cultural battle -- but we do need to understand the issues and be willing to make sacrifices. Rick Santorum is the only presidential candidate who constantly reminds us that "as the family goes, so goes the nation". Visit his website at www.ricksantorum.com to learn more.
Be involved in the political process -- be willing to go out of your comfort zone and tell your friends and family the truth. The stakes are too high have a "wait and see" attitude, or to remain silent in this most critical juncture in recent American history.
We can take our country back. We can restore America for our children. We can help restore the family unit and save much pain and suffering. But it won't happen unless we are wiling to "speak the truth in love," and start working for cultural change.
Rick Santorum is taking a bold stand and challenging us to help. So the question is, "Will you?"
6 Comments
Ted R. Weiland
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Anyone who thinks that voting is going to make a Christian or moral difference over the long run is ignoring the last 224 years of the Constitutional Republic's history. Think about it: have elections helped to make this nation more or less Christian? The inescapable answer is that elections (regardless who's elected)have always produced (at best) the lesser of two evils - or is it the evil of two lessers. It's time we figure out that elections are nothing but a political shell game by which we are always provided the establishment's choice and by which the nation becomes less Christian and more ungodly with every election. One of the principle reasons for this is Article 6's prohibition against Biblical qualifications. Elections are non-biblical. Yahweh (the God of the Bible) has a much better plan by which we end up with the best of the best. You can read about in "Article 2: Executive Usurpation" at http://www.missiontoisrael.org/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt5.php, or you can listen to a two-part audio series concerning the same, entitled "Elections: Man's or Yahweh's," at http://www.missiontoisrael.org/tapelist.php#T873 and T874.
Jerry
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 5:01 PM
"and swells the ranks of folks dependent on government handouts for a steady monthly income.That's victory?"Yes, if that was your goal in the first place.
pete
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM
Ms. Hagelin, I have to disagree with your view of liberals. Every thing you say is true, but it's good for us. Just as a liberal, especially a hollywood type. They'll tell you how good STD, minority pregnancy, abortion, and school dropout rates are good for America.
The Right Wing Liberal
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Unfortunately the worst decision the Republicans can make in 2012 is to make the election a "culture war". But I predicted that this would happen because most Republicans don't have the slightest idea what to do to get us out this mess (debt,looming government, loss of freedom etc). Every attempt by either party to legislate morality ends in failure. Because no sane Republican candidate will tell the electorate what is true, but unpopular, it's much easier to sink to that low, mindless political pit of "Bringing back America's morals. Great. Will we have 4 more years of Barack's destruction or 4 years of finger wagging and self-righteousness?Say goodbye Gracie.RWL
Mike Schuerger Sr.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 1:00 AM
"Every attempt by either party to legislate morality ends in failure."I think this Red Hering a remarkable find in this day and age.By definition, all proper law conforms to Natural Law, ie., is Moral or is invalid law. Those are the choices.For a clear and concise example take murder. Why is murder a crime? Because we as a society have decided that human life is a good, and cannot be taken from us without due process of law. That is a statement of morality. This is the decision of most of societies throughout the ages and perfectly conforms with Natural Law. (It also describes the battle over Abortion: one group declares the unborn as "not human life" and so not protected while the other seek to protect the human life.)Law is about deciding what is right and what is wrong and what to do about it. That's morality. If there is no moral question involved, it is mere tyranny, though admittedly sometimes the moral question is hard to locate.Some questions have commonly accepted answers yet are not subject, or no loger subject, of law. It is still the common belief in this society, for example, that adultry is wrong but it is no longer the subject of criminal law (though it may be relevent to civil cases and divorce.) However, the society still holds that adult sex with minors is a violation of law. So law applies to some sexual congress but not all. Different people don't agree where the lines should be drawn, so we have battles.Some issues seem to get settled but keep coming up. Chattel slavery is an example. Western Civilization has outlawed it, but it still exists in other parts of the world. Also we have problems with illegal human trafficing, both domestically and the enslavement of American citizens in other parts of the world. So we have an agreed morality that still requires the protection of law and its enforcement.All this is elementary. This battle will exist as long as we are at all a free people. It is a good; its elimination would be the fruit of tyranny.
Kim Sun in Denver,.Co
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 12:56 PM
Maybe, just maybe if you can prevent Hispanics, African Americans, people between 18-24, and college educated adults from voting, and ask 30 of the 50 states not to vote, then maybe conservatism will catch hold again. Unless that happens, I'll gladly sit and watch Mitt Romney drive the nails home in it's political coffin.