It’s the Culture

I’m back and this time I have so many different things I can write about. There are so issues that are coming into play. There are crises on the turn of every page of the newspaper. But the one I wanted to write about was the Elliot Spitzer saga.

Last week the tabloids were full of it. Every paper had something from how the former governors’ wife was reacting to the actual last call he spent $5,000 to sleep with. The media is eating it up and Hustler magazine is going to make the prostitute a wealthy woman with a cover page and story.

As I heard the news as much as I have never liked Mr. Spitzer and always felt he was an ill spirited phony, I never dreamed that this would be the way he would fall. I was hoping for him to be brought down but not at the expense of his wife and children. Now its too late he has humiliated his wife and his daughters nationally. Not to mention that he can never look anyone in the face again without shame. Why would a man who claimed to be such a stalwart individual have this kind of problem?

I will present my theory. It is the same thing that is driving the decay of our society at large. It’s contraception! “What?” you say? What does that have to do with it? I’ll tell you it has everything to do with it. Ever since the contraception has been made morally acceptable by our society we have slid down the slippery slope of death.

Originally the concept behind allowing contraception was to enable married couples to continue to have marital relations without the risk of having a larger burden of children for which they may not have the ability to care for. Sadly it would not be long before it became obvious that this tool actually interfered with marriages but also made the sexual unitive act no more than an act for physically pleasing one another. This took away the purpose of joining together in love before God with the possibility of creating life.

Suddenly sexual relations are no longer only for the marital bed. Now it is for anyone looking for a turn on. It is another drug. And just like all drugs once you get started it is hard to get off the train. But one major factor is that this particular drug has more legal dealers that would be a Cocaine dealers dream. The US government protects the rights of pornographers and protects lewd sexual advertising. All the girls and women’s magazine write about how to sell themselves to men. Many of the men’s’ magazine are pornography under another cover. The media tells are young men and women in movies and on TV it is all right to have sexual relations on the first date! Twenty years ago it was shocking to suggest for two adults to speak publicly about living together unmarried. Now young couples shack up left and right and no one, not even their parents have the courage to speak against it.

My point is this unbridled sexual desire is fed fuel that burns day and night. I will admit that I am far from perfect in this regard. But we learn from our mistakes and I hope by being outspoken that somehow I may save someone from this insanely sexual perverted society we currently live in. We have people from all walks of life succumbing and I believe the biggest cause of this is pornography fueled by the permissiveness that was born of the contraceptive age. This contraceptive age has also given birth to infanticide, which in politically correct circles is called abortion.

Trying to come back to come back to Elliot Spitzer. Here is a man who had everything and for his drug of choice he destroyed his life. Now there is always something valuable to learn if someone is willing to notice. His situation is not as shocking to our culture as the media makes it out to be. In fact I think most people were not that shocked it just was that he was a hypocrite.

So my final point is that his situation is nothing new. If we are real believers of Christ we must as men and women of the church turn away from such things. We must fight against pornography, contraception and abortion at every corner. Then and only then will the culture of life be able to be brought back. Women will not be looked upon as sex objects, children will not become prey to sexual perverts because their minds will be turned to God instead of to death. But we need to stand up for what is right, even in public places where some will try to humiliate us.

You know the enemy will try to make us out to be puritans. The big lie they spread is that the Church is against sexual intercourse. But we Catholics know the truth. The Church loves the sexual act and actually promotes it in the confines of the gift of love that God gave us in one only real union, which is the marriage of a man and woman.

PS: I could write a book about this.