Another symptom of our dangerous disconnectedness is the increasing crassness of our popular culture. Certainly all one has to do to verify this is turn on the television and watch the garbage on MTV for a few minutes, consider the myriad of adult magazines lining our book store shelves and the pornographic sites so easily accessible on the Internet, or take stock of the movies coming out of Hollywood. Add to the above the multitudes of video games, TV shows and movies—many marketed directly at our youth—glorifying death and murder. It is these types of secular mediums that have essentially become our surrogate parents, teaching our children everything that is immoral and destructive in our culture.
Where is the embrace of charity and love for our fellow humans?
Moreover, because of a very influential and liberal mainstream media, those that believe all life has value and dignity—“pro-lifers” are portrayed as being “out of touch,” “intolerant” or part of a narrow-minded and fanatical “religious right.”
All this disdain towards people who simply believe what our Founding Fathers believed—that as Jefferson stated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life is “inalienable.” Surely this means that the government has a duty to protect our most vulnerable citizens against termination.
So now we are being told by this same secular media that—for the good of the country—we must all try and “get along” with our new president-elect. I agree. But he has to get along with us, too.
For example, if he wants to increase comity, he needs to rethink his promise to support the Freedom of Choice Act—a piece of legislation that would obliterate all measures to put reasonable limits on abortion. And any national health care proposal needs to explicitly protect the disabled, elderly and seriously ill against discrimination in the provision of medical services.
The Obama presidency presents an opportunity for us to turn a page and reunite as a people. But it cannot be at the expense of the lives of those least able to protect themselves.