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Monday, November 21, 2005
Gulle: Play with fire, get burned
By Inocentes A. Gulle
Your business is our business
ALMOST everyday now rape cases hug the headlines. When I was young, rape cases rarely appear in the papers. Could this mean that the world is morally degenerating? It does appear that way. I believe what causes this phenomenon is the increasing modern liberalism. It seems that our standard of morality has been so loosened to the point that what used to be taboo is now permissible.
How can the old standard of morality stand when it is being besieged daily with filth passed off as art? For example, burlesque dancing used to be done only in dimly lit for-adults-only joints. Now, it is flagrantly displayed in prime time TV shows back to back with soap operas depicting adulterous themes.
Even the old-time burlesque dancer would be embarrassed wearing the scanty attire of today's sex bombs parading in front of people like they want to tell people that they had too much clothing. Even the hardest rock in the strands would cave in after years of being bombarded by the waves. Who is the toughest full-blooded superman that would not run amok being tempted day in day out by a sorceress dancing in front of him with nothing but a couple of button-size to cover her breast and a patch of see-through triangle in front of her vital part?
No wonder even men of the cloth succumb to such assaults and driven to commit fornication with their similarly afflicted constituents, male or female, as the case maybe.
Come now these American marines who allegedly gang-raped an "innocent" Filipina. Those guys are just as victims as their victim. They are only the ones of those caught in the web of moral corruption that are accused while there are thousands like them that are not accused of rape because their "victims" know they had it coming.
I'm not saying these American bastards should not be punished. By all means they should face the consequences as the law says. It's not prudent, however, for the nation to condemn them outright before the case had been resolved. Did they ask why that girl was out there in the wee hours of the night? Was she abducted or did she on her own volition go to the den of lions? Did she not play with fire and got burned?
It's one thing to condemn and another thing to parade around self-righteously while condoning the evils around them. For example, I don't see Gabrielas demonstrating against movie stars changing wives and husbands like they are changing their movie costumes. I don't see them protesting against homosexuals parading like peacocks in heat, the very personification of sexual perversion that spelled the doom of Sodom and Gomorrah, the major cause of the fall of the ancient Roman Empire.
Let's not be hypocrites; if we condemn "sin" and the sinner, let's condemn more the one that brought about sin. Better still lets listen to that voice that said, "he who is without sin shall cast the first stone."
(November 21, 2005 issue)
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