There seems to be an inevitability about the downward spiral of society.
I have no personal animus toward homosexuals. I actually know and have known quite a few people who described themselves as gay, and, for the most part, have had pleasant and mutually respectful interactions with them. That being said, I have moral and Theological reasons to oppose same-sex marriage, as do the majority of Americans… for now. Looking at the demographics of that opposition, I see a subtle, gradual, decline in moral certitude, a change in the direction of the wind that seems to portend societal acceptance of same-sex marriage as the moral and sociological equivalent of traditional one man/one woman marriage. If this trend is not interrupted by a radical reversal, the cycle will be completed in this generation, and we will have moved from abhorrence, to tolerance, to acceptance, to endorsement, and that’s a shame.
It has been hard for me to understand, and even harder for me to watch. One of the members of my small group in a Fuller Seminary class (Leadership Training Models) made this astute observation about the challenges of developing leaders among the Millennial Generation — those born between about 1981 and 2001:
“Millennials born after 1980 were especially prone to leadership that lacked basic skills one would hope to see in an emerging leader. The Millennial leadership crisis appears to be the result of a generation who all received trophies despite not all being winners and having parents do all the work while they did all the playing.”
(Wikipedia) “Millennials are the first generation without mature memories of communism and a powerful Soviet Union.[citation needed] In newly rich countries such as South Korea or Greece, they have known nothing but developed world standards of living, while their grandparents often grew up in developing world conditions, causing considerable social changes and inter-generational difficulties as the young reject many traditional ways of life.”
My children are both Millennials, and I remember many AYSO soccer games in which no score was kept and after which everyone was told “good game,” regardless of the effort extended, skill level of the players, or the final not-actually-recorded score. The seasons always ended with every child receiving an identical trophy. In other words, for most of this generation all are the same, all are equal, and I’m okay/you’re okay. Gay? Fine. Straight? Fine. Bi? Double fine. I have my truth, and you have yours and, after all, the ultimate evil is not the repudiation of the laws of God, the ultimate evil is now intolerance.
Talk show host Dennis Prager put it this way: “If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.” The Prophet Isaiah said, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” That pretty much describes America today, doesn’t it?