shades of gray

John Adams said "our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" but things are different now, society has decided we have a right not to be offended, we need to be "tolerant" and "inclusive" of every ones views, so the narrow minded black and white, right and wrong thinking is being replaced by the enlightenment of "live and let live" dull gray. So everyone lived happily ever after, right? Wrong. Adams meant that our Republic was designed for a people that could regulate themselves, right and wrong is an important concept, when taught to our youth, it stays with them all their life, it's how we learn to treat one another and what keeps our society stable, but when we allow "every man to think he is right in his own mind" the borders of good conduct become blurred, and like teens who refuse to grow up we hand over the responsibility of setting borders to our lawmakers, and they love their jobs, they make laws and laws to regulate the laws they made, then the children who live under the law (us) think we can do what we want as long as we stay inside the boundaries set by big brother, see where I'm going? Because we threw away the concept of right and wrong we have become a morally stunted people, when once business men made agreements on a handshake, we now need lawyers to draw up contracts, once a mans word was his bond, now when you get screwed it's your fault for trusting a liar, where once we had free speech, now you better not offend someone with what you say or you might be guilty of a hate crime, once high school kids brought their 22 rifles to school because they were part of the school rifle team, now, well your goin to jail. Fathers, Mothers, take your children back, teach them to love their neighbors as themselves and they wont need government telling them how to behave, a civilized society depends on YOU!