Saturday, October 23, 2010 "Contrast"

Saturday, October 23, 2010

The fifth biennial Yale Sex Week kicks off today, October 23rd, 2010 at the Ivy League school, the Yale Daily News reports. And while the event has run into trouble in the past—at the last Sex Week, a film director who was a guest speaker showed clips from his porn film that depicted sadomasochism—this year's version will focus on sex, love, and relationships, event organizers say.

“It would delight your heart to see how the trophies of the cross are multiplied in this institution. Yale College is a little temple: prayer and praise seem to be the delight of the greater part of the students.” - Benjamin Silliman, Yale faculty member between 1795 & 1817.

Contrast our Country from its beginning to its present state, can one see that we have progressed in greatness or digressed in greatness? I suppose the response would be determined by the definition of greatness. If greatness is defined by a society that delights in prayer and praise to the God of the cross.

In a society whose moral foundation is founded in Biblical values and precepts, it would seem we have more than digressed but entered a freefall from our lofty position. But if greatness is defined as freedom with no bounds, no moral codes, where morality is seen as religious chains instead of a delight, then we must be soaring to our greatest heights at present.

Our nation is on a continuing path, deciding what kind of people we will be, or want to be. Our government and our schools of higher learning are what we as a people make them to be. I look out over our great nation and wonder what this generation will hand to the next, and then what the next will do with what we hand them.

Will we hand our next generation a porn film depicting sadomasochism, sex, love, and relationships? Tell them to build their society on personal freedom and exploration of unbound restraints.
Will we perhaps return to our foundation and hand them freedom bound and restrained by personal responsibility and conscience?

It’s a decision that you and I will make as each individual adds their influence to our society as a whole. As I ask myself I also ask you, what will your part be?
May God bless each of you,
David