A Marvelous Prospect

Shhh. I’m at a conference in Orlando. That’s code for DisneyWorld. Last night the event organizers took 3,000 of their favorite clients to Epcot. I rode “Test Track” – a pretty good roller-coaster disguised as a car test track. Being Epcot, the ride is sponsored, in this case by GM. As you wait in line (which you can apparently do for a really, really long time), you ease past a number of exhibits which explain simply the history and various aspects of car testing. Then you ride the roley-coaster, which simulates aspects of a car on a test track, including a crash – almost. Typical Disney.

In preparation for the evening at Epcot, which I had never been to, I did a little on-line searching to find out what the rides were and which were the neatest. One reviewer of Test Track noted that he had ridden it the day that GM declared bankruptcy, which leads to the tie-in to my topic. (I know you’re glad I’m finally getting to it.)

Why did GM go bankrupt, and what does that have to do with the  moral bankruptcy of the USA?

this morning as I was walking through the hotel lobby, a CNN report on HPV vaccine for BOYS was being discussed. HPV – human pappiloma virus – is a known cause of cervical cancer in women. It is an STD. 1/2 of sexually active women are infected.

So, what’s the point? Aren’t vaccines good things? Isn’t disease-prevention a good thing? Certainly. But in this case, there is a moral restraint that is being abandoned.

Rather than a vaccine, what we need is a moral and ethical climate that suggests to our children that sexual restraint before marriage and a monogamous relationship within marriage provides freedom and protection that is far better than any vaccine.

a couple of months have passed since I started this one…

I just learned that my neighbors are divorcing. I’m not surprised. They had to get married. Well, they didn’t have to, but she was pregnant with his child. So it was “the right thing to do.” I guess it was. But these are two adults who chose to ignore the moral restraints that God places on our sexuality, and that our society used to. I know, we all messed around, or wanted to, but we knew it was wrong. I don’t think that’s the case any more. Now we have another fatherless child that’s going to hit the streets in a few years. Nevermind her children from the marriage that their liaison busted up. sigh.

A couple of more lines of rant and I’m done with this one.

Earlier this morning I was poking around YouTube and watched a cute anti-smoking clip. Any time I say that smoking is OK, people should have the freedom to smoke, I get lambasted with how it causes cancer and all sorts of diseases, and how bad it smells. Of course I can’t argue with that. A question – has anyone actually pondered the costs to our society of the sexual perversions that are considered OK, and the laxness of morals across our society as a whole? Anybody? To borrow from Robert Heinlein, “there ain’t no such thing as free sex.”