Why Don’t You Care?

Matt Walsh recently wrote an opinion piece about the issue of teaching sex in schools. He is a person able to express himself seemingly freely with such eloquence to match the truly great writers of our age. It helps that he seems to hold similar convictions to my own, but regardless his writing is a pleasure to read.

On the topic of teaching sex in general:

“My convictions on abstinence before marriage have to do with not just my views about sex, but my views about marriage itself, and about love, and about loyalty, and about self-control, and about virtue, and about faith. Everything is wrapped up in everything, and if you try to teach abstinence using just the practical aspects (‘sex might cause AIDS!’) without any of the deeper, spiritual substance, you’ll end up with a lesson plan that’s equal parts superficial, paranoid and unconvincing.”

While his points in this particular piece were solid and more cogently asserted than most, the real issue of parental rights comes to:

“However you choose to parent — and I really hope your parenting doesn’t involving telling your son he can be a girl if he wants, but that’s your prerogative in a free country — we should all agree that there is a distinction between a parent’s domain and the school’s, unless you homeschool. Indeed, maybe we’re all finding out that separating factual lessons from moral lessons is nearly impossible to do perfectly, which is yet another argument in favor of homeschooling. Maybe homeschooling is again the only real answer here. Be that as it may, as long as public schools exist, we must try to beat back its attempts to intrude on parental turf.So while progressives take the Ten Commandments and the crucifixes out of the schools, I’ll come in right behind them and clean out the condoms and the genderbread drawings. And then we can meet in the parking lot and swap. I’ll take my religion home to my kids, and they can take their sexual permissiveness and confusion home to theirs.

Meanwhile, the schools can stick to the ABCs and 123s, and we’ll all be better for it.”

And, yes, I really wish I had written that.

There is a prevailing attitude in our country today that whispers “not my issue” in the face of dark clouds encroaching the principals and freedoms of our nation. Just because you homeschool, or do not have children, is not justification to ignore Common Core. Just because you are 30, do not ignore the antithetical monstrosities that are social security or medicare. Citizenship of our great nation is a gift. And if we continue our overarching concern with our own comfort and our own ‘special interest’, we will lose our tenuous grasp on a truly great nation.

We hold the future of our country in our hearts and hands. We must each of us be forever vigilant, as Alexis De Torqueville warned so long ago, for the soft tyranny from within that threatens our founding principles.

So, why do you close your eyes or turn away when you see it?

Why don’t you speak up or even care to educate yourself about the topic?

And yet why are you so ready to step in and tell your neighbor or someone you don’t even know how they must behave? Why do you want every person to do what you want, but do not care to step up to

You know better than that, I hope.