Notice among the efforts of the left that they seek more and more the platonic utopia in which everyone shares everything equally. As they grant us more and more the pleasures and indulgences of our baser animal natures, they distract us from the focus on things that make all of that matter. While they give to us greater freedom from responsibility for your sexuality and render it not only more possible but also more likely that young people engage in sexual activities at younger and younger ages, they take away other rights, liberties at which the youth have looked little, distracted by the burgeoning physiological changes in those around them. While you may be able and encouraged to procreate, you will bring children into a world that renders them slaves and resources rather than the divine beings that make them a heritage of the Lord.
In the health care bill, we see this phenomenon at work. There is federal funding for abortions and increased focus on "sex education". Whereas that used to mean an effort to prevent sexual relations, it's now about how to prevent the consequences of any and all sexual liaison. The most effective way to protect yourself both from the positive consequences of intercourse (children) as well as from the negative ones (rejection, disease, ad infinitum) is to abstain. I know it's hard, but I also know it can be done. Now, the federal government veribly instructs our children not only how to actually have sex but seems almost to encourage it as part of their maturation process.
As soon as you can, I encourage you to read "The Teenager and the West" by Dr. Michael Platt. He discusses in this essay how the Sex Drugs and Rock n Roll generation has bequeathed to us a generation of teenagers. We have a teenager in the white house, a man who is not only not grown up but who has no intention to. We have men in positions of power who are interested in providing us only with the tools of pleasure, the instruments of indulgence, and the encouragement to excuse ourselves of every evil imaginable.
Maturation is not simply a matter of physiology. True adulthood means responsibility. The liberal ethos involves a shift of responsibility to other people, primarily the as yet unborn (and potentially unlikely to ever be born), as they indulge in new "rights". Just because you can do a thing does not necessarily follow that you must or that you should.
The youth wants to enjoy adult pleasures once earned. The teenager wants to indulge in them as a means to block out reality. Youths looked forward to becoming adults. Teenagers look forward to being cared for by other adults. Youths contribute and build. Teenagers are a burden on the productive.
You do not have to be like everyone else. I know that it's tough. I know you're tempted sometimes to "go out and get a life". If you are like everyone else, eventually it will be impossible for you to be anything other than that.
Unlike God, the government gives us things with one hand WHILE it takes away everything else with the other. While you indulge in sex, violence, and liesure, remember of what else the government robs you. Eventually, even sex is regulated by a total government. If you don't believe me, read Orwell's "1984" or Lowry's "The Giver". Do not let them distract you from what really matters. Spencer W. Kimball warned: "Never trade what you want most for what you want in the moment." J Reuben Clark wrote in 1940 that "that man or woman who demands as the price of his or her friendship that you abandon any of your righteous standards of living offers you nothing worth buying".
Why am I chaste? Why am I chased?
This makes it "easy" for me, when I am offered the chance to do otherwise, to reject the ovations and invitations. The man or woman who offers you that isn't actually concerned with you. If they were, they would respect your standards.
So why am I chased? Women know that I respect them. I consider it the highest form of love to refrain from taking something to which I have no right even if you offer it to me. Yes, I am attracted to women and I enjoy their companionship, but there is a proper place, and a proper time and a proper reason for sex, and it is not about what the media and the administration has made it out to be. Sex is the gateway to fatherhood and family, and while it is the highest thing to which I aspire, I aspire to it in the right way, at the right time and under the right authority. The basic unit of society is the family. As the families of the nation go, so goes the nation.
I will do my part.
In the health care bill, we see this phenomenon at work. There is federal funding for abortions and increased focus on "sex education". Whereas that used to mean an effort to prevent sexual relations, it's now about how to prevent the consequences of any and all sexual liaison. The most effective way to protect yourself both from the positive consequences of intercourse (children) as well as from the negative ones (rejection, disease, ad infinitum) is to abstain. I know it's hard, but I also know it can be done. Now, the federal government veribly instructs our children not only how to actually have sex but seems almost to encourage it as part of their maturation process.
As soon as you can, I encourage you to read "The Teenager and the West" by Dr. Michael Platt. He discusses in this essay how the Sex Drugs and Rock n Roll generation has bequeathed to us a generation of teenagers. We have a teenager in the white house, a man who is not only not grown up but who has no intention to. We have men in positions of power who are interested in providing us only with the tools of pleasure, the instruments of indulgence, and the encouragement to excuse ourselves of every evil imaginable.
Maturation is not simply a matter of physiology. True adulthood means responsibility. The liberal ethos involves a shift of responsibility to other people, primarily the as yet unborn (and potentially unlikely to ever be born), as they indulge in new "rights". Just because you can do a thing does not necessarily follow that you must or that you should.
The youth wants to enjoy adult pleasures once earned. The teenager wants to indulge in them as a means to block out reality. Youths looked forward to becoming adults. Teenagers look forward to being cared for by other adults. Youths contribute and build. Teenagers are a burden on the productive.
You do not have to be like everyone else. I know that it's tough. I know you're tempted sometimes to "go out and get a life". If you are like everyone else, eventually it will be impossible for you to be anything other than that.
Unlike God, the government gives us things with one hand WHILE it takes away everything else with the other. While you indulge in sex, violence, and liesure, remember of what else the government robs you. Eventually, even sex is regulated by a total government. If you don't believe me, read Orwell's "1984" or Lowry's "The Giver". Do not let them distract you from what really matters. Spencer W. Kimball warned: "Never trade what you want most for what you want in the moment." J Reuben Clark wrote in 1940 that "that man or woman who demands as the price of his or her friendship that you abandon any of your righteous standards of living offers you nothing worth buying".
Why am I chaste? Why am I chased?
That man who demands without marriage as the price of his favor or love the enjoyment of your body, has in fact nothing but sorrow and degradation to give you in return...next to you sons: that woman who offers to you her body outside wedlock invites you to a feast that brings disease and corruption that will pollute you until death. -J Reuben Clark
This makes it "easy" for me, when I am offered the chance to do otherwise, to reject the ovations and invitations. The man or woman who offers you that isn't actually concerned with you. If they were, they would respect your standards.
So why am I chased? Women know that I respect them. I consider it the highest form of love to refrain from taking something to which I have no right even if you offer it to me. Yes, I am attracted to women and I enjoy their companionship, but there is a proper place, and a proper time and a proper reason for sex, and it is not about what the media and the administration has made it out to be. Sex is the gateway to fatherhood and family, and while it is the highest thing to which I aspire, I aspire to it in the right way, at the right time and under the right authority. The basic unit of society is the family. As the families of the nation go, so goes the nation.
I will do my part.
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