By Rob Pue
In the 1960s, young people threw off all moral restraint and lived by the adage,
“if it feels good, do it.” This was the era of “free love,” which translated, means, “unbridled lust, casual sex and all manner of hedonism and self-indulgence.” The values and morals of their parents were discarded in favor of lawlessness. “Sex, drugs and rock & roll.” In their minds, many justified their irresponsible and sinful behavior with catch phrases like
“make love, not war.” Perhaps in their vain imaginations, they actually thought they were MORE moral as they equated “sexual liberation” with “love.” News flash: the two are NOT the same thing.
By the turn of the decade, as 1970 came around, things began to change. There was a price to pay for their behavior. Sexually transmitted diseases were much more common. Women, who gave their bodies away to men they believed “loved” them, found they were now pregnant — and SINGLE. The men wanted no responsibility and so they vanished... But the women didn’t want the party to stop either. Yet there was still at least an ounce of moral values in our country, because the solution at that time was NOT to KILL one&rsq ...
