Romans 1:22-25 — Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

This is not the sort of piece I really enjoy writing. Then again, although I often do get great pleasure from them, my pleasure is not really the point. So let’s get to it.
We are living in a rising pool of moral sewage. How else could a book described as “an erotic romance series about the sexual exploits of a domineering billionaire and an inexperienced coed” sell ten million copies within six weeks of its publication in the United States? How else would official estimates in Great Britain reckon that more than twenty percent of marriages are now bogus, for the purpose of illegal immigration? How would there be nearly four thousand reports a year of children being trafficked for sexual purposes in the U.S.?
I could go on quoting these dreadful statistics for a long time. But why is it happening, and what can we do about it?
I say there’s no mystery about the causes of corruption. They are the same in our day as they were in Paul’s day. First people deny what they know about God. Then they deny God. Then they replace God’s laws with their own “wisdom” — “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves”. Let us not be surprised, then that, where God is denied and His word driven out of schools, depravity is rife.
So what are we to do about this mess? Well don’t expect any amazing new ideas from me. The reasons are old, and so are the remedies. Psalm 101 says it well:

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. (Psalm 101:2-3)

It’s straightforward. We have to have zero tolerance for any kind of immorality. We have to have nothing to do with it — not ourselves, nor our children, nor our children’s children.
So there it is. Not my favorite topic – but every so often it seems we have to revisit it.