|
|
Let's think about sexual harassment laws. First, of course, the Bible teaches us that the purpose of sex is to be the physical manifestation of a spiritual union between a man and a woman whom God has chosen to be united. Jesus teaches us that, like all sin, adultery is committed in the heart, before any actions are taken. Therefore, Christians know that men are not to view pornography, or fondle or make lurid proposals to women, nor are women to dress or act provocatively with immodest clothing, makeup, or jewelry. This is what most of us think sexual harassment laws are all about, but that is not the agenda that has brought these laws into being. The forces of the world have two competing objectives. First is to turn sex into a toy that should be engaged in in any way, at any time. Second is to reverse the sexual roles and relationships that God has created in us. Sexual harassment laws are a principal tool in accomplishing this second objective. How do we know this? We know this because sexual harassment laws are redundant, they are unnecessary if our traditional Christian rules - which used to inform both legal and nonlegal sanctions like manners and social stigma - are enforced. Physical touching and remarks that suggested a sexual interest in a woman that might be acted on without her consent fell within the tort law concepts of assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Public lewdness - including provocative acts or words in the workplace - fell within the sanction of social norms or customs. Hence the concept of the "dirty old man" and the "tart." People in the past who acted in this way invited scorn and ostracism. it was not a pathway to social or economic success. In short, sexual harassment laws were unnecessary as long as the forces of shame and modesty were at work. Those forces have no place, however, in a promiscuous society where "everybody does it." Once our modesty about sex was broken down, the door was open to achieve the second objective - reversing the roles of women and men, the real function of sexual harassment laws. As we've seen in court opinions from the most liberal jurists, sexual harassment laws, at best, allow women to escape responsibility for their own sexual harassment, their own sexually enticing dress and behavior. A court in California has held that even innocent behavior like a well-intentioned compliment can be sexual harassment and there is no requirement for a woman to signal her dislike of the innocent behavior in any way before she can claim she is being harassed. Ultimately, the goal of these laws will be to allow women to engage in sex and then claim that the sex was not consensual. Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote a commentary recently about just such a case involving college coeds who visited a male's dorm room, got drunk and had sex and then claimed they were raped. It is important to see that sexual harassment laws could never have been sold to the public unless the Christian moral restraints on our behavior had first been broken down. Sin begets sin. What's the purpose for reversing God given sexual roles? God's rules about sex have an earthly purpose - to allow families to be formed and maintained and to allow us to participate, with God, in the creation of life. The agenda behind sexual harassment laws has as its ultimate goal the stunting of family formation. Since you can't run a nation on ideas that hurt families, these laws will ultimately weaken the nations in which they are adopted. Notably, Muslim nations are the strongest in maintaining traditional male-female roles, though they, too pervert God's laws in a different direction. Because of the strong taboos on heterosexual sex in Muslim nations, homosexuality is now widespread and tacitly accepted in many Islamic countries. Jesus warned us in the Olivet Discourse, "Because of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold." This prophecy is being fulfilled in our time. |
|