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The roots of the AJPH’s position goes back to the “do your own thing”
attitude of the late sixties and early seventies. Cohabitation gained
social approval. Many people saw “trial marriages” as a way to test
compatibility. Soon activity once been reserved for marriage became a
recreational activity like any other.
During the sixties, pseudo-intellectuals argued that all morality was
“personal,” and that standards of behavior were up to the individual.
They repeated the phrases “You can’t legislate morality” and “I don’t
care what you do in your bedroom” until the general public accepted
them. That, in turn, gave rise to the superficial “Who am I to judge?”
attitude that is so common today.
Underlying this attitude was an even more profound shift was at work.
The worship of youth replaced respect for the experience of elders. A
permissive culture sough to convince people to discard the Church’s
moral system. In the process, moral protection for the young
disappeared. Indeed, too many people old enough to know better looked
enviously on their children’s immoral lives and imitated them. Divorce,
adultery, abortion, and child abandonment proliferated. (Read more.)
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Sociologists studying primitive man found that one of the earliest steps toward establishing a culture or group was to establish some sort of religion and moral guide to follow in order to survive successfully as a group.
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