I am so glad I was mostly grown up before free love and easy divorce became popular. When I was in seventh grade, there were only two in my class from broken homes. Friends with kids in school now say it is a rarity if even one child's parents are not divorced. Not that I am unthankful for the time in which I live. The higher standard of living. Bigger homes. More cars. Lattes, and the money to afford them. I love easy access to information that cell phones and computers provide. And communication is especially important because so many people no longer have home phones, or homes for that matter because of, what used to be called, free love and easy divorce. The appeal of sex without strings and marriage without commitment overruled the prophets of the time who warned that the consequences would be women living in poverty raising children with no fathers. What even they did not know was that some of these fatherless boys would grow up to become mass murderers. Easy divorce and free love have broken up the family, which is the second most civilizing influence in the world. The transforming power of Christ is the first. Free love has cost millions of unborn babies their lives and now it is taking the lives of many more innocents through fatherless boys grown into monsters.
What we call "free" school lunches are actually paid for by the taxpayers. Free community dinners, by donors. Every free service was provided by someone else, even the view. God provided that one. What used to be called free love was really just easy sex and we are paying for that, some, even with their lives. We wanted freedom from moral constraint and, even the mention of, God. But the price of that freedom has been high. I am not sure we can afford any more freedom.
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