Not Before Coffee

If you’ve not heard about the 15-year-old girl in California who as brutally attacked for over 2 hours as peers and classmates watched on, cheered and videotaped the acts, you’ve been living under a rock and would do well to stay there.

Since hearing about that incident and pondering events that have taken place close to home recently – I’ve found myself questioning the morals and values of our country and our society.

Ten years ago while working closely with tobacco companies, I remember the attacks they took on their advertising campaigns. Their campaigns were said to make smoking more appealing because the ads were sexy or cool.

Sure, secondhand smoke is dangerous – but why is it that our world is so ready to attack the ads of tobacco companies for the destruction they cause in lives, not just in smokers but those of friends and family closest to the smokers? Why does the world set by and watch as companies sink to new lows of sexting up their advertising that is in it’s own way destroying families too?

Internet porn and sex addiction growing by leaps and bounds. These addictions are destroying lives! These addictions are destroying lives of those who suffer the addiction and those friends and family closest to them. Yet no one seems to scream out about the “White Lies” that are being told each and every day through advertising, commercials and television programming.

The average age at which children are being subjected to internet porn is EIGHT!

Our young men and women are suddenly sent into this world of fantasy as a way of “sizing up” their own bodies. They don’t realize these people and images they are seeing are NOT the norm. Thus begins the downward spiral of self esteem and a distorted self image sets in.

I have to wonder WHY? Why is internet porn allowed so freely on the internet? Why is primetime television programming becoming a cesspool of sex with smutty Danica Patrick GoDaddy ads?

Why should I, as a parent and loving partner, be forced to by programming to protect my family and home from the invasion of internet porn? Why shouldn’t protecting my family be as simple as cancelling our debit card?

If sex sells and the industry is confident they will make money – why can’t all internet porn be forced behind an iron curtain – one that does not easily penetrate innocent homes and minds?

It’s my personal opinion that if God doesn’t take action soon – he’s going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.