Scott Kamps
An article written by Adrianna Rodriguez appeared on the front page of the Aug. 21 edition of USA Today, about sending kids back to school.
This revealing journalistic piece communicates a lot about where our society is and where the cultural elites want to take us.
USA Today used prime real estate on their front page to communicate what it thinks American parents need to hear, in preparing their teens and young adults for high school and college in 2023.
Toward the beginning of her article, Rodriguez explains that “the health landscape has changed drastically over the past three years, and it has become more difficult to know how to prepare. However, experts say, there’s more information and resources parents can use than ever before.”
Good thing we have experts to help us navigate modern problems, and give us the information and resources we need to parent well.
She proceeds to describe those resources: contraceptives; fetanyl-testing strips and Narcon; COVID tests; and mental-health resources.
I kid you not; we live in the day when “experts” are telling parents how to enable their high school and college-age kids in sex and drugs – and prevent COVID. I wasn’t alive in the 1960s for the era of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but I’m fairly confident that movement wasn’t encouraged by the parents of the day.
Something in society has changed.
On the one hand, it seems consistent for the “sexual liberators” of the sexual revolution – who promote the supposed “comprehensive sex education,” intended to liberate teenagers into engaging in licentiousness “safely” – to now encourage teenagers and young adults to do heroin and other hard drugs “safely” by testing the drugs for fentanyl first.
Maybe when the kids get a little older, they can move to San Francisco or another coastal big city with Progressive policies to live on the streets and get government “safe-snorting kits” and “safe-smoking kits” for crack use.
Obviously, the last sentence is tongue-in-cheek. Do Progressives really not understand that their “harm-reduction” policies normalize addictions?
Back to the original article, I was made aware of it by a podcast I regularly listen to, which provides “a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.” In it, Dr. Albert Mohler pointed out two big worldview issues that scream out of the USA Today piece.
First of all, we see moral issues again being reframed as health issues. Just as alcoholism became a disease instead of a sin, homosexuality became a result of genetics – born this way, and abortion is supposedly about a woman’s reproductive health.
Secondly, parenthood is completely redefined here. Dr. Mohler said, “Parents are no longer the moral authorities who are understood to have the responsibility to say, ‘This is how you should live.’”
Your children are precious gifts from God; don’t enable them in evil.
Love them, forgive them, teach them, invest in them, pray for them, shepherd them and be an example to them.
Scott Kamps writes a bi-weekly column for The Graham Star. He can be reached via email, thestableguy@frontier.com.