By Selwyn Duke

If you read the news consistently as I do, it starts to seem as if there is a report virtually every day about another teacher (often female) who has had sexual relations with a young student.  And is anyone surprised?

The truth is that our outrage over it and pretense of virtue is completely comical and not at all congruent with our general behavior.

Don’t misunderstand me, I’ll be the first to say that such actions are both immoral and a violation of educational ethics and that they should remain illegal.  But I am a different animal; I’m no libertine and am consistent in my pronouncements.

Our modern Roman Empire is a different matter.  We have rubber-stamped all manner and form of perversion and our credo seems to be, "If it feels good, do it."  Sexual content and imagery are everywhere nowadays, but I don’t have to present a litany of licentiousness to make my point.  All I need do is cite the most egregious example: Our normalizing of homosexuality.

One can be as perverted as he wishes, but what he cannot do is change reality; the Truth will out.  Homosexual behavior is so grossly immoral, is such a deviation from the norm and God’s plan for man’s sexuality, that it’s laughable to think we can legitimize it while maintaining any semblance of virtue in the arena of sexuality in general.  If homosexual behavior is OK, how can we then say with credibility that anything lying below it in the hierarchy of sexual sins is wrong?  If we lower a bar, we lower a bar, and then we shouldn’t be surprised when moral cripples we have no use for started leaping it.

At the risk of being redundant, the problem is that many are denying just how serious a violation of morality homosexual behavior is.  They would take issue with my reasoning, saying that I’m wrong because the act really is no different than normalcy.  Sure, we’ve heard it all before: It’s just another choice, it’s just a different orientation.  Again, though, we can entertain any fantasies we wish, but the Universe won’t change its rules simply because we click our heels together and say, "There’s no place like homo, there’s no place like homo . . . ."  Escape from this twisted land is not so easy, and the man behind the curtain doesn’t have a halo over his head.

Remember this the next time people complain about such sex scandals.  If you want virtue, you must choose virtue; if you choose vice, you’ll get vice.  It really is a package deal.