By Selwyn Duke

There was a local youth group in Pittsburgh that recently used a rather unusual activity as a vehicle through which members could become more comfortable with one another.  According to this piece,

"[the] meeting had teenage boys taking off some of their clothes, wearing
adult diapers, bibs and bonnets and being spoon-fed by girls as they
sat in their laps."

Here’s the kicker: It was a Christian youth group.

The group is the Mt. Lebanon Young Life club, part of a non-denominational Christian organization with a nationwide presence. 

If you think the decadent display was the handiwork of the kids, think again.  The guilty party was their youth "minister," one O.J. Wandrisco (perhaps it’s not a good idea for your son to have "O" and "J" as his first two initials), and he is not in the least apologetic.  Said this libertine,

"The skits are designed for one reason and one reason only — for kids
to have fun. It’s not a dirty joke. The skits are to break down the
walls and let them have fun."

Break down walls . . . .  What walls would those be?  The ones between decency and impropriety?  Between chastity and promiscuity?  Between teenage normalcy and pregnancy? 

The last comment is not hyperbole.  If you break down all the walls between boys and girls, a few months later the question often is, "Is it a boy or a girl?" 

Walls exist for a reason and are not evil, oppressive things.  Yet there are those among us who have utter contempt for walls, be they ones that govern social interaction or those along borders. 

One wall that should separate the sexes is the firewall against undesirable sexual activity.  We have degraded that bulwark, and the consequences of this are evident in an out-of-wedlock birthrate that runs 70 percent and 27 percent in, respectively, the black and white communities. 

Knowing what I do about man’s psychology (although it doesn’t take high-powered discernment), I suspect that Wandrisco is a pervert.  In the least, though, he certainly lacks judgment and any sense of what it means to be Christian.

And that’s what’s most disheartening.  It truly makes me sad for my civilization that even those who ostensibly are Christian have been so thoroughly corrupted. 

And libertinism is carrying the day.  There is another a story right now, one about a teenage boy named  Michael Wixon who is being charged with disseminating nude pictures of underage girls. 

What happened was that approximately 12 girls, ages 11-14, took pictures of themselves in their birthday suits and sent them to their "boyfriends"  in 2003.  Well, one thing led to another and the boy in question finally did his best Hugh Hefner. 

But here’s the kicker in this story: Upon investigation, the authorities discovered that most of the girls’ parents didn’t really care.

While there has to be prosecution, we should ponder this before putting too much onus on Master Wixon.  Hey, maybe he was pressed into a diaper skit when he was 14, too.

We need to think very seriously about a return to 1950s "repression."  Or, at least, suppression.  As C.S. Lewis said,

"Some people think that sex is messed up because it was put in the closet.  No, it was put in the closet because it was messed up."

We should decide whether we want to be ancient Rome or Papua New Guinea, or a glorious Western civilization. 

And I hope we make the right decision.  Because when the Moslems call us "The Great Satan," I’d like to be able to say they’re wrong in every way.