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I: NEW MORALITY

-I-Iow will it affect them?

The charge leveled against the Bible's morality is, It's not practical. So society has
substituted a new morality. Does it pass the
test of practicality? Jesus said: "Every good
tree produces .ine fruit, but every rotten
tree produces worthless fruit." Is its fruit
.ine or worthless? He also said: "Wisdom is
proved righteous by all its children." Have

the "children" of the new morality proved
its wisdom to be righteous? (Matthew 7:
17; Luke 7:35) This series of articles, "The
New Morality-Harvesting
Its Crop," looks
at its oHspring. The look may shock you,
but the publishers feel it's necessary to alert
you to a growing trend in many parts of
the world

The New Morality
Its effect on children

ODAY'S sexual revolution is shattering the fabric of society. Old
values crumble as Self is enned and Me reigns as king. "Do your
_ thing" is the guiding slogan of the
. Is sex before marriage your thing?
,· '. Is it extramarital sex? Do it! Is
Jmosexuality? Do it! Is it divorce on
'him? Do that too, no matter whom
:ts.

· _' everyone by any means subscribes
litany of the new morality, but
umbers taking up the chant are
ooming. Books, magazines, movies
·elevision are increasingly preoccu·1th sex, much of it involving foron and adultery. Afternoon shows
··soaps" reek with it, and they now
. like a plague into evening prime
~upposedly reflecting normal huationships, such shows are in fact
of musical beds.
gay liberation movement pushes to
:-omosexuality morally acceptable,
~en homosexuality and the Bible's
-- ···--.-, become issues in TV shows, it is
e's position that is made to look
and stupid-typical examples are
ar series "All in the Family"
• • A *S*H." TV Guide said homo-,-

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sexuals have become the most effective
lobby in television. Major producers and
networks consult gay groups before planning programs with gay themes. Far
more flagrant, however, is the present
escalating invasion of the living room by
pornographic cable TV.
Youths are imitative, and they note
the examples or role models that adults
are providing. What adults do has far
more impact than what they say. And
that impact is frightening! In the United States one out of every five children
has had sexual intercourse by age fourteen. Half have had it before they finish
high school. Three out of ten sexually active girls become pregnant. In the
United States unwed teenage mothers
have 600,000 babies annually, and 9,000
of them are born to girls eleven and
under. Added to all of this are unreported pregnancies and those terminated by
abortions. A million and a half runaways
annually flee their homes to live on the
streets, and thousands end up as male or
female prostitutes controlled by pimps.
"A basic tenet of modern developmental psychology," Dr. Sam Janus says in
his book The Death of Innocence, "always has been the belief that between
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 The New Morality-Harvesting

Its Crop

infancy and adolescence, sexuality goes
underground-becomes
'latent' -in the
interests of psychic and physical growth."
He then observes that this latency period "is a thing of the past, and that our
children are going straight from babyhood to puberty as fully sexual beings,
with no intermission. The eroticization
of children is becoming a fact of life in
modern society."
Janus later elaborates on this loss of
childhood: "Gone are the halcyon days
when little boys had time to join boys'
clubs, build clubhouses, and play ball.
Some, of course, still do but the numbers
decline. The same goes for little girls,
who once played with dolls and hoped
some day their knights in shining armor
would come along, marry them, and live
happily ever after with them."
More and more children are being
robbed of these years needed for physical, intellectual and emotional growth.
Television commercials push kiddie cosmetics-lip gloss, nail polish, powders,
perfumes and other like products for girls
three to fourteen years of age. Ads for designer jeans show ten-year-olds bumping
hips in discotheques. Calvin jeans commercials have Brooke Shields provocatively posed and asking, "What comes
between me and my Calvins? Nothing!"
and "If my Calvins could talk, I'd be
ruined." The experts-psychiatrists,
pediatricians, teachers-all agree that preteens are striving to look and act older, reacting to an environment saturated
with sex, materialism and drugs. The
childhood years are being telescoped,
passing too fast too soon, and the child
is being cheated out of one of the most
delightful periods of life.
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One psychologist said: "We dress our
children in miniature adult costumes with
designer labels, we expose them to gratuitous sex and violence and we expect
them to cope with an increasingly bewildering social environment-divorce,
single parenthood, homosexuality. Many
adolescents feel betrayed by a society
that tells them to grow up fast but also
to remain childlike."
The most appalling proof of the decay of values is that there are obscenity
laws, but the courts can't decide what is
obscene. Many judges are so busy wringing their hands over freedom of speech
and press that they cannot discern the
difference between legitimate ideas and
opinion on the one hand and obscenity
on the other. They cannot see that hardcore pornography, even showing on film
or in print small children engaged in sexual acts, is totally without "redeeming
social merit." It's like saying strychnine
in meat must be allowed, since the meat
part has "redeeming nutritional value."
Previous to the new morality there
were principles of right and wrong. Now
it is the era of permissiveness. Now saying No is the no-no. Now the fad is, 'Do
your own thing. Forget love of neighbor,
even if that neighbor is a six-year-old
child. Now it's self-love, all the way!'
The new morality that many extol as
liberation is actually exploitation. In The
Death of Innocence, Dr. Sam Janus asks:
"Has liberation become libertine? Has
the vaunted liberation of children turned
them into sacrificial lambs on the altar
of the sexual revolution?"
There are strong reasons for answering both questions, YES!
AWAKE!-June

22, 1982

 The New Morality-Harve•ting

It• Crop

Chickens'' and ''Bawks''
"Just as it occurred in the days of Lot."-Luke

AWKS swoop down on chickens,
and farmers keep loaded shotguns handy to blast the hawks.
however, those words can carfferent connotation. The "chickare young boys, the "hawks" are
omosexuals, but the analogy ends
The farmers are missing. The laws
dequate, enforcement is poor, the
are lenient and the "chickens" bectims. This problem is not new. It
the way back to Sodom and Go-·"" But the last decade has seen an
-.:rmsingly aggressive pursuit of "chick-

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ens" by the "hawks ." Their brazenness
has scandalized those elements of society
still able to be scandalized.
In both New York City and in Los
Angeles some claim that boys are more
in demand than girls. A Los Angeles
police sergeant who works with child
vice says: "The figures for this area
show that it's between 70 and 75 percent
boys to 25 percent girls." In Massachusetts a call-boy operation was discovered,
where 250 boys were available for sex
anywhere in the state for $50 and up.
It turned out to be, however, only a
branch of a national network headquartered in Houston, Texas. "Hawks" could
call there from anywhere in the country and order "chickens" by telephone.
Within half an hour a boy would be at
the caller's door, provided the "hawk's"
credit card cleared.
The "hawks" have formed groups and
demand respectability . The Rene Guyon
organization, based in California, boasts
8,500 members. Their motto is "Sex by
eight or it's too late." Numerous other
man-boy sex organizations exist. Lists
are compiled that show where boys can
be picked up in every state. One such organization has headquarters in London,
with branches in the United States and

m~n of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from boy to old
all the people in one mob. And they kept calling out to Lot and saying to
• 'Where are the men who came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us
~ may have intercourse with them.' "-Genesis
19:4, 5
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Its Crop

other countries. The homosexuals are
pushing for changing the laws to lower
the age of consent and to legalize sex
between adults and children. They are
fighting for children's rights, they say,
and make themselves out to be crusaders. The Gay Community News said:
"The gay liberation movement is fighting not merely for the rights of adults to
engage freely in homoerotic acts, but also
for the millions of our society's children
to enjoy a free sexual life ... and [for]
the rights of children to control their
own bodies. At a time when abuse of
children by their parents is epidemic, it is
ironic that it is men who love boys who
are made into the ultimate criminal."
Children's rights to be abused, prostituted, sodomized? Their proclaimed concern for children's rights is a cover-up
for men whose only interest is gratification of their own sexual perversion.
When the children become a little older
these "loving" adults dump them back
on the streets and pick up new victims.
Willing or not, children at these tender
ages are unable to understand the choice
they are making or to foresee the consequences. They are victims. They are
vulnerable. Misguidedly they seek affection from a homosexual and are psychologically devastated when they are cast
off. Some are murdered. One homosexual
man killed thirty-three boys and buried
them under his house. Where has all
that supposedly great love gone?
Support for homosexual causes comes
from strange sources. The Bible is clear
on its view of homosexuality. Sodom
and Gomorrah were destroyed because
of their practice of it. The Mosaic law forbade it, under penalty of death: "When
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a man lies down with a male the same
as one lies down with a woman, both
of them have done a detestable thing.
They should be put to death without
fail. Their own blood is upon them." The
same position is expressed in the Christian Greek Scriptures concerning such
men: "God gave them up to disgraceful
sexual appetites, for both their females
changed the natural use of themselves
into one contrary to nature; and likewise
even the males left the natural use of the
female and became violently inflamed
in their lust toward one another, males
with males, working what is obscene.··
-Leviticus 20:13; Romans 1:26, 27.
In spite of these Biblical denunciation .
many clergymen and churches speak up
for the homosexuals. San Francisco, the
population of which is 30 percent homosexual, illustrates the point. One news report reads: "Much of the tolerance comes
somewhat surprisingly perhaps, from organized religion-from the major Pro estant, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and
Jewish churches and synagogues ...
Rev. Otto Sommers, the 50-year-old conference minister of Maine's 250 United
Church of Christ congregations, ... say:
'Homosexual sex, just like heterosexual
sex, is a gift of God to be lived under the
ethic of love. We all live under Christ.·
Notwithstanding the pronouncemen ~
of many of today's religious leade
and their church organizations, Jehov ·
God's view of homosexuality has nc·
changed . And , concerning conditions o.
earth at the time of his second coming
Christ Jesus said: "Just as it occurred
the days of Lot . . . the same way it \\ ·
be on that day when the Son of man
to be revealed."-Luke
17:28-30.
AWAKE!-June

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