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Sex, Politics, and the End of Morality
J. Gordon Muir
In Sex, Politics and the End of Morality, J. Gordon Muir meticulously documents the decline in American sexual morality that has occurred over the last fifty years. As readable as it is depressing, Muir’s book is one of the increasingly few warning signs America has before it completely charges over the cliff." --Daniel J. Flynn, Campus Report Gommorah Revisited The Sexual Revolution is over and the results are in. We lost. Need proof? Bill Clinton is still President. Forty years ago, one out of every twenty children was born out of wedlock. Today, one out of every three children is born without a father present in the home. Several hundred thousand lay dead from AIDS. Despite suggestions that “AIDS doesn’t discriminate,” to this day more than 50 percent of newly reported cases of the deadly virus are attributable to men who have sex with other men. In the 1990s alone, 15 million unborn lives will have been snuffed out by abortion. Marriage rates are declining, divorce rates are high. Sexually transmitted diseases are common, with more than one in five Americans carrying genital herpes (most have no idea they have the virus). Nearly all institutions exerting influence on culture promote the overthrow of traditional norms of sexual behavior. The so-called family hour of television averages 8.5 sex scenes an evening. The survey “Sex, Kids, and the Family Hour,” conducted by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, reports that three fourths of the shows aired on the “family hour” contain sexual content, with 71 percent of these relations occurring between unmarried partners. Close to thirty characters on prime time are homosexual. Varsity Blues, Cruel Intentions, and 200 Cigarettes are just a few examples of Hollywood not only marketing sex, but pushing it on a young audience. In the recently released Go, director Doug Liman tells the New York Times that “Pornography was a key part” of his movie. Leading universities offer a steady stream of pornography masked as scholarship in such courses as UC-Santa Cruz’s “Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video,” Amherst’s “Black Gay Fiction,” and Oberlin’s “Queer Acts,” in which “Drag will be encouraged, but not required.” In much the same way Soviet or Nazi art pictured scenes of conquered villagers greeting invading tanks with bouquets of flowers, Hollywood, popular music, television, the media and the schools propagandize a message of sex without consequences. No matter how many one-night-stands Ally McBeal has, she never comes down with a case of the clap. Life doesn't always imitate art, unfortunately. In Sex, Politics and the End of Morality, J. Gordon Muir maintains that “Society is being reprogrammed” with a message that sex is devoid of responsibility. The consequences, he argues, have been disastrous. Prior to Hugh Hefner, the Pill, Griswold v. Connecticut, Roe v. Wade, or AIDS, there was Alfred Kinsey. With his famed mid-century “Kinsey Reports,” the Indiana University professor revolutionized the way America thought about sex. By claiming that vast numbers of Americans engaged in sexual activity considered abnormal, Kinsey helped deviancy gain acceptance. With his visage gracing Time and countless other publications, Kinsey became the king of American “science.” Yet as Muir points out, the emperor had no clothes. Kinsey stacked his sample of American men with prisoners, male prostitutes, and other sex offenders to obtain the results he desired. In his female report, prostitutes were transformed into “married women” to portray American wives as extremely promiscuous. The testimonials of child molesters are accepted as proof that infants are capable of “orgasm.” As we have come to find out, Kinsey himself was a sadomasochist, a homosexual, and a wife-swapper among other things. His straitlaced image was concocted to make his fraudulent research more believable. “Safe-sex” is another myth knocked down by the author. “Free condom distribution in the public schools,” he informs, “is taking place in about 400 school based clinics nationwide.” Yet even if used properly, condoms do not offer reliable protection against several sexually transmitted diseases. Muir devotes a significant amount of time to debunking the idea that a gay-gene has been found. Ammunition for this theory springs mostly from the work of Drs. Simon LeVay and Dean Hamer. Both of these scientists happen to be gay (a fact conveniently overlooked by many who have promoted their findings) and both are the only researchers who claim to have traced a genetic link for homosexuality. Neither of their conclusions has been replicated in other studies. The two reports have been contradicted by other researchers, Hamer most recently in the new issue of Science magazine. Rather than an oppressed minority, homosexuals have used their victim status to divert resources to their own interests. A prime example, Muir maintains, is funding for AIDS. “More government money is spent on AIDS than any other disease category¾than for heart disease, stroke, hypertension and diabetes combined,” Muir points out. In 1997, federal research funding for AIDS, breast cancer and prostate cancer will be, respectively, $1.5 billion, $445 million and $119 million.” Yet the number of people dying of AIDS related illnesses is only a fraction of those dying of breast cancer or prostate cancer. To the exclusion of intensive discussion of other problems brought on by the Sexual Revolution, the book’s focus is primarily the gay agenda. Why not focus on something harmful to large numbers of people, say, divorce? Muir answers this criticism: “The flaw here is that no one is pushing divorce. And no divorce activists are fighting to teach divorce ideology in the education system.” Sex, Politics and the End of Morality reserves special condemnation for the role of the schools in promoting life-styles that harm individuals. He observes that “schools and universities have become the training grounds where the young and impressionable are educated and recruited into the promotion of causes and ideas that are actually destructive of the society that funds the training.” Pop-culture is just as culpable. He notes that “instead of recommending cure,” our culture has “exacerbated the cause, continuing to denigrate the values associated with societal and personal success while advocating those behaviors associated with failure.” As we approach the new millennium, America faces a crisis of the moral order that threatens to permanently harm the nation. Destructive sexual behavior--that breeds disease, children without fathers, abortion, etc.--may become ingrained in society as pathologies are passed on from one generation to the next. While arguments calling for compassion and tolerance of homosexuality tug at the heartstrings, the correct approach is love for the individual and disapproval of the action, Muir professes. “Just as the cause of alcoholics would not be advanced by trying to get alcoholic behavior accepted as normal,” Muir warns, “neither can gay activism gain social approval for same sex-marriage and sodomy if the public is fully informed of all the facts.” While “stop pushing your values on us” has become something of a mantra among sexual anarchists, it is clear that the so-called religious-right are not the ones imposing their will on America. Through the schools, the media, the entertainment industry, and a host of other institutions, sexual anarchists are aggressively forcing their values upon the rest of us. Most traditionalists would actually be satisfied with a government that stayed neutral on matters of sex, much the way it currently operates regarding religious questions. This is not the case for moral liberals. Public funding of abortion, hate crimes laws, massive funding of AIDS-related projects, welfare payments, government condom giveaway programs, and gay marriage all serve to demonstrate that the Left has too much invested in having the government impose its moral outlook on others to allow it to wave the flag of neutrality on such controversial issues. In Sex, Politics and the End of Morality, J. Gordon Muir meticulously documents the decline in American sexual morality that has occurred over the last fifty years. As readable as it is depressing, Muir’s book is one of the increasingly few warning signs America has before it completely charges over the cliff. After reading Muir’s work, one might begin to view the recent national controversy quite differently. While some conservatives may lamely believe that Clinton had the nation fooled, the fact is that he didn’t. Rather than an enemy of the values held by a vast “moral majority,” Clinton is the natural representative for a large segment of America. Seeing the situation through this lens enables the observer to see that he is merely a symptom. The problem may not be the President, but the people who elected him. -- Daniel J. Flynn |
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