You can tell a lot about a person by examining his priorities; it speaks a great deal if a man puts his own pleasure over the needs of others. The same goes with countries as a whole.
The Super Bowl ad controversy highlights the twisted priorities in this country. Click here for a very well-written article articulating the problem.
Most people who are against abortion are against it because they consider it murder. But I think the problem goes much deeper than (merely) taking a life. The death of the fetus is the fruit of the evil, but at its root it is not murder. The root of it is the backwardness our priorities as a people. We have placed our own pleasures--our sexual freedom--above that of another human life. We have placed sexual liberation beyond the reach of personal responsibility. At its core, it is selfishness and lack of personal accountability fueled by lustful passion and justified by "privacy" & "freedom".
The hypocrisy of the whole thing is even more enraging. A classic "bleeding heart liberal" makes it his life purpose to fight for the rights of the underprivileged and those without a voice. But for some reason, that heart doesn't bleed for unborn children--those who literally don't have a voice. The same liberal will fight strenuously with all passion for 1st Amendment free speech, yet when that speech is in disagreement with his ideals, it is "inappropriate" and "tasteless".
This isn't an issue of right v. left politics--this is an issue of our country's moral priorities, which every day seem to be giving in to selfish desires.
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