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| When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways. Saint Paul 1Corinthians 13.11 |
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| GOING ALL THE WAY |
| Not long ago, in my commentary on 'the generation with the new explanation', I invited readers to compare & contrast the society and culture that the baby boomers have produced with that of their parents and grandparents. Of course, the differences are so glaring that those of us whose childhood was lived in the fifties might just as well be considered 'pre-historic' or at least 'ancient' where our memories of the virtues and decency that were the foundation of the time are today ridiculed and dismissed out of hand. This past week in Canada, 'Exhibits 'A' and 'B' have confirmed the utter moral and civil bankruptcy that prevails in our cultural institutions as well as in the shameless, all-pervasive support of the aging boomers that feeds it First, the committee with the Governor-General that oversees the appointment of people to the 'Order of Canada', an 'honour' that is designed to recognise those, from many walks of life, who have made signficant contributions to the country, chose to admit to it's company, one Dr. Henry Morgentaler, the abortionist and abortion activist. There are many, of course, like me and certainly the Church and others outside our national institutions, who have vehemently objected to this man's receiving the award, not only because he is responsible for snuffing out the lives of those whose continued existence he has denied, but also because he is such a divisive national figure. Dr. Wilder Penfield, the famed brain surgeon, he is not. If you are an American reader, think of Jack Kervorkian, the infamous 'Dr. Death' who built and used his 'suicide apparatus' to help people kill themselves, as receiving your 'Medal of Freedom'. The motto of the Order of Canada is 'they desire a better country'. Even if one thought that abortion ought to be legal and rare, and I am not one, Morgentaler is virtually responsible for the removal of any prohibition against abortion and leaving Canada the only country in the western world where an unborn child can be killed at any time up to the moment just before birth. What the late great Pope John Paul II called 'the culture of death', is at the centre of this man's 'life work'. Morgentaler, ironically a survivor of the death camp Auschwitz, is one of those from my parent's generation, who like those materialists and socialists that promoted eugenics, i.e., the deliberate culling of human life, does not recognise the fundamental dignity of all human life. Under the famed feminista mantra 'pro-choice', the abortionists actively snuff out the lives that are growing in a mother's womb without regard to that child's God-given right to live. Of course, 'child' and 'God' are not part of their vocab. To 'raise' this man up as a 'virtuous' example for Canadians is an abomination and a disgrace; although not quite as abominable or disgraceful as what he does. To so many of the boomer generation of feminists, however, Morgentaler is a 'hero' whose efforts have permitted girls and women to have an abortion under any circumstance and as frequently as they wish; effectively making the procedure a means of birth control. Right on cue, comes one Connie Woodcock, a Canadian baby boomer journalist who applauds Morgentaler and the Order of Canada committee. Giving voice to those of her generation whose sexual appetites could be 'satisfied' at will because of 'the pill' and, if that didn't work, or they 'forgot' to take it, then abortion, Woodcock blindly demonstrates the selfishness and stupidity that is characteristic of the apparent majority of today's 'modern woman' and her metrosexual counterparts. Speaking from her own experience and when, as she says, she was 'young and stupid', (she was 20 years old!) she tells of having one of the 'scariest' moments of her life: She had sexual intercourse and thought she was pregnant and so was afraid how that might limit her 'career' and future. Remarking that the younger generation of women today similarly remain 'stupid', she believes that if she had been either 'on the pill' or, if pregnant, could have had an abortion, then it wouldn't have been 'scary' and she could pursue her own life's interest. It's having the 'choice' that counts. Is it really? In other words, her sexual choices are not really her responsibility, but that of the pharmaceutical industry and/or the health care system. The 'choice' that she made, along with myriad other women of her generation, to engage in an activity that, with some precedent, tends to lead to the creation of children, is one for which she is not accountable. 'If it feels good, do it', some girls used to have sewn on the bums of their blue jeans and so, if I am 'young' and 'stupid' by doing 'it', I'm off the hook; even if by my choice I have participated in the creation of a little human being. This is the 'reasoning' of someone who refuses to grow up. The real stupidity of Woodcock's rant is not so much her having given in to lust when she was a university student. Her folly is that of the prevailing elite whose idiocy, fed by an atheistic and materialist ideology, is in the absurdity that things only have 'value' if I, they, we, the committee, the politicians, et al, give it value. So, a child that 'I want' and that is growing in me is called a 'baby' and a child that 'I don't want' and that is growing in me is merely a 'foetus'. As for the poor kid, he is at the mercy of his mother's 'choice': first, to create him or her and second to let him or her live or die based on her 'career' and 'future' according to her own selfish interest. The expression, 'going all the way' is long out of fashion today. It used to be a very big deal. Those who thought about going beyond necking and petting in the back seat of a car certainly knew that they were playing with something more powerful than them. With the advent of the pill, 'going all the way' was made easy and sexual experiences became increasingly more frequent, promiscuous, and common; so much so that 'going all the way' itself has become 'no big deal'. What was once was so highly revered and protected in society, i.e., human life, marriage, and the like, have become dispensable. What once was regarded as the fulfilment of the bond between a man and woman, has been reduced to mere hedonism and the 'hooking up' with mulitiple partners. Where the common law and common sense that once defended the life of an unborn child to the extent where an abortionist like Morgentaler was once put in gaol, has now been replaced by the primacy of self-interest and the delinquency of moral responsibilty; all with the co-operation of our complicit and cowardly politicians and courts. We have indeed 'gone all the way'...towards a culture that promotes evils that it calls 'good', and dismisses the sacred (i.e., authority) that it regards as 'bad' and for which it retains an active contempt.. In spite of the many continuing good voices that attempt to appeal to a collective conscience that no longer exists, this ever-adolescent Me generation and their co-horts have achieved in a few decades what took centuries to develop and build: a decent society with a moral foundation endowed by powers greater than that of an aging journalist. Woodcock tells her readers not to bother sending her any e-mails that express a view different from hers. She says, 'Don't care what you think anymore'. Ah, yes. One can nearly hear the harsh echo of that same refrain from her and myriad other 'stupid' and 'young' people to their parents, to their teachers, to the Church and, indeed, to God; all of whom are expected to be 'tolerant' of her ilk and approve of their bad behaviour. |