Dr. Jerry Johnston of Overland Park

[Jefferson]

Dr. Jerry Johnston of Overland Park

Friday July 30th, 2004. This is show #152.

 

[Jefferson]

BEST QUOTE OF THE SHOW:

For 3500 years adultery was a crime. In our Judeo Christian heritage, in the bible in the old and new testaments, when America was founded, throughout European history adultery was not just a sin, it was also a crime. And God had put human sexual behavior within the boundary of marriage. And He put not only sin around that - sex outside of marriage is sin - but it was also a crime. And it was reasonably easy for society to maintain that moral standard because it was so clear. Any human sexual activity outside of marriage was a crime - fornication with other people.

And so the Christian community has agreed with Hillary Clinton, the humanists, the liberals, Hollywood that adultery should have been decriminalized. And we have consented to the legalization of one man working to seduce his neighbor's wife and as a result the floodgates of perversion have been unleashed on America. And so we're trying to put out these fires of child-porn and prostitution, strip-joints in every neighborhood and homosexual marriage. And these are all the natural consequences of us waving the white flag and saying, "We agree with the liberals and the humanists. Adultery should have been decriminalized." And that happened just a few decades ago and we don't even remember it.

 

[Sozo]

Hey, my neighbor!

 

[Zakath]

Well, we might also point out that for the vast majority of human history, much longer than a mere 3500 years, human slavery was legal and even supported by the Judeo-Christian leaders...

... at least until those "modern liberal weenies" took away the "god-given right" to buy and sell other people as property.



Contrary to some folks' luddite fantasies, human society changes over time. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.