When I was in law school back in the ‘60s, a law publishing company used to send all second- and third-year students, free of charge, its “advance sheets” containing decisions by courts in the students’ home states. Nowadays, the company provides students, free of charge, access to its computer research programs.

It’s a very effective merchandising technique. When the students pass the bar exam and start practicing, they buy the company’s books and the up-date services, and subscribe to the expensive computer programs, because they are familiar with them. Thus begins a commercial relationship that may last forty or more years.

I can’t help thinking that this kind of marketing is part of the reason kids---and I do mean kids---are being encouraged to have sex at an earlier and earlier age. The Portland (Maine) School Committee recently approved a measure authorizing the dispensation of birth control pills and patches to students between the ages of 11 and 13. ( See the story by CNSNews.com Senior Editor Susan Jones, October 18, 2007.) At that age, girls should be playing with dolls, and boys should be playing with toy soldiers.
But wait a minute! I shouldn’t have written that. My suggestion violates the tenets of the rabid feminists. According to them, anything is better than little girls playing with dolls, and boys playing at soldiers, including their having sex with each other.

Portland’s policy regarding pills and patches does not break new ground. It merely widens the sphere of freedom for the children, since “condoms have been dispensed to students since 2002.” Maybe the condoms weren’t working. More likely, in today’s belief that all must be treated equally, the makers of the pill and the patch felt that their wares were being discriminated against, and they demanded equality of opportunity.

The Portland School Committee’s policy will make a lot of people happy.

Planned Parenthood will be happy: its baby-killers will have a whole bunch of new clients.

The manufacturers of birth-control devices will be happy; their products will be distributed to middle-schoolers, who, a few years from now, will buy them on their own and will do so for many pleasure-filled years to come.

But there will be a lot of misery, too. Maybe not right away. But soon.

The children will eventually be unhappy because their Disneyland of Sex will have consequences of which they were never warned. Many will contract deadly diseases and help spread these diseases to others before they die. All will learn to be selfish and irresponsible hedonists, living for the moment, unable to plan for anything past their next orgasm. Girls who are popular for a while in grades 7 through 12 will wind up abandoned, scorned, and lonely and passed over by the young men who want mature and loving relationships later on. Some eleven- and twelve-year old boys will be so emotionally devastated when they humiliate themselves trying to be adults that, when they mature, they will turn to sodomy in preference to a relationship with a woman.

Conscientious parents will be unhappy because they will have lost their children. They may try to teach them at home that life is more than pleasure, and that sex is more than having fun. But that message is subverted every day in schools and in mass entertainments; it is subject to ridicule and, in many places already, is prohibited by law.

And society will be unhappy, too. What all societies need to maintain their existence is that the younger generation learns self-discipline and self-control. The young need to learn the value of delaying gratification while working productively. They need to learn the value of family, of parenting, of mutual support, and of love for others. Instead, kids are being inundated with sex and violence, and being taught that they are entitled to what they want, when they want it.

Here’s how it works: first, you awaken the sexual drive earlier than nature intends, and then pander to it, keeping it aroused it with a constant barrage of sex and nudity on television and obscene lyrics in what passes for music. (Conscientious parents cannot even let their kids watch NFL Football games on Sunday afternoon because the commercials, especially those depicting “coming attractions,” are full of violence and sex.) You persuade kids that they are entitled to gratify their sexual urges, regardless of what their parents say. Then you teach the kids how to satisfy those urges with sex-ed classes, and you give them the toys to make it “safe” for them to do so. You teach them that sex is only a game, a pastime the only purpose of which is pleasure. And, for those situations in which the condom leaks, the patch doesn’t work, or the kids simply forget, you make abortion available to any girl (excuse the violation of Political Correctness; I should have said “any woman”) who needs one and wants one, with or without parental consent or even knowledge.

From the standpoint of the baby-killers and the pill makers, the wonderful thing is that the kids will do “the deed” over and over---and continue to buy condoms and get more abortions. The money will keep rolling in.
They call it freedom, but what it really is is a form a child abuse. It is the corruption of children for money. It is organized and constant; it is enforced by legislatures, city councils, and school boards; and it is protected by the courts, which have elevated it to a constitutional right.

And if someone should have the audacity to quote the Bible:


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But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.
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you mock the messenger, and outlaw the message by statute or court decision because it is based on religious beliefs, and is therefore divisive and intolerant.

(As I write, this story comes from Stockholm, Sweden, October 23, 2007 as reported on LifeSiteNews.com:

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The government of Sweden has announced it will be banning any religious activities in schools except for those directly related to religion classes. It is also directing that in religious education, religious ideas must not be taught as though they are objectively true.
Swedish Education Minister Jan Bjoerklund told reporters that religious activity “can take place ... but only outside of coursework”. He said that teaching should “not be influenced” by religious beliefs.

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America is not far behind.)

Copyright 2007 James F. Csank
Fka Siger of Brabant
All Rights Reserved

This essay first appeared on www.michnews.com.