Fifty years ago I sat glued to the tube as the first men walked on the moon. My how things have changed over the past half century.
Most of us kids knew to never be alone with a Roman Catholic priest.
The churches were still full of children and adults.
Men married women and women married men and they raised families together.
I remember the first time I heard about a divorce was around the time of the ,moon landing, and my mother and father explaining divorce as a great tragedy especially for the children. My grandfather spoke out against divorce claiming that humans mated for life unlike the animals.
The gay men could be seen hanging around the public bathrooms in the park, swinging on the swings meant for children, and we all knew to hold it and not to use those facilities.
Yes, men dressed up as women and performed in the clubs downtown, but they rarely were seen on the streets.
No one had ever seen a Muslim.
And Neil Armstrong was still married to his first wife.
Flash forward to today. The world, which was already upside down, is now spinning backwards, out of its orbit, sucked away by an increasing powerful spiritual vacuum.
What was right is wrong and what was wrong is right.
Even those who are supposed to assess sanity and treat madness have lost their minds,
I have been called a lunatic by some for holding on to old values that I believe are rooted in the Gospel, but I will not give up praying for all of the other lunatics out there who do not ascribe to those values and who somehow believe that they are the ones taking the next giant leap for humankind.
Most of us kids knew to never be alone with a Roman Catholic priest.
The churches were still full of children and adults.
Men married women and women married men and they raised families together.
I remember the first time I heard about a divorce was around the time of the ,moon landing, and my mother and father explaining divorce as a great tragedy especially for the children. My grandfather spoke out against divorce claiming that humans mated for life unlike the animals.
The gay men could be seen hanging around the public bathrooms in the park, swinging on the swings meant for children, and we all knew to hold it and not to use those facilities.
Yes, men dressed up as women and performed in the clubs downtown, but they rarely were seen on the streets.
No one had ever seen a Muslim.
And Neil Armstrong was still married to his first wife.
Flash forward to today. The world, which was already upside down, is now spinning backwards, out of its orbit, sucked away by an increasing powerful spiritual vacuum.
What was right is wrong and what was wrong is right.
Even those who are supposed to assess sanity and treat madness have lost their minds,
The American Psychological Association has established a task force on "consensual non-monogamy," an effort they say is necessary in order to reduce "stigma" on persons who practice polyamory.
"Finding love and/or sexual intimacy is a central part of most people’s life experience. However, the ability to engage in desired intimacy without social and medical stigmatization is not a liberty for all. This task force seeks to address the needs of people who practice consensual non-monogamy, including their intersecting marginalized identities," the website for the task force of the APA's Division 44 explains.
I have been called a lunatic by some for holding on to old values that I believe are rooted in the Gospel, but I will not give up praying for all of the other lunatics out there who do not ascribe to those values and who somehow believe that they are the ones taking the next giant leap for humankind.
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