I can sympathize with Cal Thomas’ decrying our decadent, “anything goes culture” (“We must care about what’s appropriate,” Sun Journal, June 21). The evidence is everywhere.
On Yahoo’s website, for example, I sometimes see laudatory reports with photos about female celebrities pushing the envelope by appearing publicly in broad daylight wearing tops that only hide their nipples. Can open air pole dancing be far behind?
To buttress his conviction that America’s lost its unifying moral code, Thomas quoted President John Adams (d. 1826): Our Constitution is made “only for a moral and religious people.”
There’s a bushel of things that would outrage Adams’ moral sense were he to materialize in 2023 — like out-of-the-closet homosexuality. As many know, for centuries that’s been regarded unquestionably as “the sin that dare not speak its name.”
Yet I’m sure Thomas wouldn’t want to see a reversion to that morally backward mentality, squelching all public discussion of it as if it were beyond the pale, “crying to heaven for vengeance,” as it used to be stigmatized.
Furthermore, Adams and Thomas are light years apart doctrinally. As a Unitarian, Adams rejected Christian supernaturalism (think trinity, incarnation, original sin, eternal damnation, etc.) which Thomas certainly considers absolutely indispensable.
Clearly, Adams’ brand of Christianity isn’t the one he has in mind for regenerating America.
William LaRochelle, Lewiston
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