Staunton, Virginia- The recent News Leader headline “Sex DVD ruled obscene” should have been considered as silly as a headline announcing “The sun rises in the east,” but it wasn’t, because we live in strange times.
Under the banner of liberalism, every social norm is being challenged and overturned, while the basis of moral values, the Bible, is being driven from our national life.
The laws governing the physical universe cannot be violated without an immediate, anticipated result; i.e. sudden death from contact with a high voltage of electricity or the leap from the 10th floor of a building. The consequences of the violation of moral laws may be less immediate, but are as real — and deadly.
There is an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases in America with 19 million new cases every year. And who will deny the direct link between AIDS victims and illicit sexual activity? How many million times has abortion been used to cover the act of fornication?
But liberals see no relationship between the violation of moral laws and these social tragedies numbering in the millions, because they view morality as a restriction of their “freedom” — the hell with the consequences.
When Paul Cambria comes to town as a hired gun for the $11 billion-a-year porn industry, he’s just doing his job. After all, DVDs featuring depraved sex acts are made to be sold for profit. But these movies also serve as tools to recruit more and younger addicts, our sons and daughters, to become porn stars for the next generation of what Mr. Cambria calls “sexual athletes.”
The nagging question for me is why our Jim McCloskey would single out a brave and honorable man like prosecutor Ray Robertson for ridicule while he is doing precisely what the community hired him to do.
Why do we find Mr. McCloskey and the management of our community newspaper in bed with Mr. Cambria and the porn industry when we almost daily read of local residents, both young and old, being arrested for sex-related crimes? Will Jim begin to parody law enforcement officers in his political cartoons when they arrest sex offenders or will he just remain a con artist who draws cartoons ridiculing Ray Robertson, [pictured] a remarkable man of courage and conviction, who deserves our greatest respect?