the american SEX revolution (continued from procoding page)
Miss Landers goes on to illustrate: “Our children are growing up in a sexual oriented culture unmatched anywhere else in the world. Sex shrieks at us from billboards. Sex sells soap, toothpaste, deodorants, beer, electric appliances. Cigarette ads picture teen agers in the grass. ‘Cool’ is the caption, but it’s not coolness that the illustra tion suggest.” A Russian high school principal was asked, “How is it that you succeed in interesting your teenage girls in sci ence. The reply, “In America, your 14 year olds are already painting their faces and running after boys. Your cul ture simply encourages early sex ac tivity.” And the evaluation is unfor tunately correct. It is a dark picture my friend, not something that an evange list or a minister would paint, but that which men, who are not drugged with the opiate of self-pleasure and indul gence call us to consider carefully. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover points the finger of blame to the right source, to the individual adult, to the parent. Estimates of a conservative nature show us that crime has risen since the end of World War II by more than 800 per cent. While the population has been large, yet the increase i n c r i m e h a s o u t s t r ip p e d i t four to one. Justice no longer seems to triumph. The crimi nal becomes the hero. “Deprived child hood,” “lack of affection,” “underprivi leged,” all are familiar words of our pitying, stupified society, when the actual cause is sin in the human heart. The Bible rightly says, “The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who can know it?” In York, Pennsylvania, a high school principal, tired of the endless flaunting of sex, exposing of enticing flesh by young high school girls caught up in the maelstrom of adult methods and morals, dismissed for a brief period of time several of the students who had persisted in coming to class with hem- 24
since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Men and wom en do not seem to realize that civiliza tion now trembles on the very brink of disaster and final calamity. The communists realize it; their plans call for the overthrow of our gov ernment, not necessarily by warfare, but rather objectives show they will seek to come in and take it over when we have grown weaker and more morally corrupt. Whether we like to think about it or not, we are rearing a crop of teenagers who know absolutely nothing about the righteousness that exalts a nation; they are being shown by adults the sinfulness that is a re proach to any people. A mother writes quite indignantly, “Surely you will admit that things are different from when you were a teen ager. Today at thirteen a girl is a sophisticated young lady. My daughter knows more than I knew when I was nineteen.” Yes indeed, things are dif ferent. As the Reader’s Digest points out, “Today there are more boys and girls in trouble, more serious trouble, and at an earlier age, than ever before. And it is not simply because there are more boys and girls. One bride out of seven who married in 1960 was seven teen years of age, or younger. A recent study disclosed that almost forty per cent of the teenage brides interviewed, admitted they were pregnant the day they took their marriage vows.” Ann Landers, columnist for the Daily News Syndicate, sums it up by saying, “No one puts it in so many words, but •there is in our viewpoint today the sug gestion that we may as well live it up fast because tomorrow may never come. And, among too many teenagers, living it up fast is expressed in accelerated dating, early smoking and drinking, s e x u a l experimentation, premature marriage, and premature divorce.”
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