Food for thought: We cannot legislate morality but we do legislate immorality.

By Keisha Mathews  -   Realtor

For government to enforce legislating immorality means the loss of religious freedom for those who choose (and once had a right) to live according to a select code of values.

They will now be told that their right to live according to those values (values which history has proven are time tested and promote the best in family and community), discriminate against those who have selected a different set of values.

In theory, embracing, adopting, and applying all values sounds like the "right" thing to do. Simply using the word "value", almost makes it acceptable in and of itself.

However, in practice, it has shown to be destructive. Let's take women's liberation. In theory, again, the phrase women's liberation sounds like the right thing to do, and in some respects there were some issues that needed to be addressed. However, woman was created to be the nurturer and caregiver, the administrator of the home. Over the years, the view and perception of the most important job in the world, the role of mother in the home, has been diminished and weakened.

The result; Multiply women's lib times three generations and you get latch-key children, 65% divorce rate, 70% of children growing up without a father or being raised by one parent, more families on welfare (which was originally created to be temporary assistance and a temporary program), minorities who were disenfranchised to begin with (Afr Amer and Hispanic children) coming up at the bottom in areas where the poll is about the "best", and coming up at the top in polls where the subject matter pertains to the "worst" - testing, finishing school, college grads, two-parent homes, savings, retirement, funeral preparation, etc.

There is no secret as to why we are failing our children, only a refusal to accept responsibility and a failure to choose to live according to the purpose in which we were created.

Not living up to and in accordance with the standard in which we were created results in a society of chaos. When man moves the line of morality further and further back to justify their indiscretions or refuses to take responsibility, we cannot continue to complain about the ills of society but should instead expect that what is occurring right before our eyes is a result of our own doing.

But there is hope. Choose to take a stand for morality in the face of immorality. Morality is not a bad word - morality will, in the end (and there will one day be an end), be the remnant which will stand as a light on a hill and will not be hid.

May God's grace and mercy continue to fall upon us and may His hand never be removed from us.