What the world needs is a return to sweetness and decency.

Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday

There was a time when movies did not need a restricted rating to attract audiences. There was also a time when life didn't need a "restricted rating" to be considered worthwhile. In fact there was a time when sweetness and decency were sought after, and when anything else was unacceptable.

Now this is not an article about the "good old days", rather, it is an attempt to suggest that virtue may not be as outdated as some might imagine. As evidence, we see that some young men still prefer their young women to be virtuous and that some young women still admire virtue in their young men. We see that most of our coaches and teachers still hold character in high regard among their students and that nearly all parents still hold respect and honesty as minimum standards of behavior in their households.

So why is it when we consider such things as sweetness and decency that we often consider them relics of the past, rather than as a vital part of modern society? Maybe it is because we have bought into the lies of so many of the social elite that political correctness is the new paradigm, and that virtue is for narrow-minded, judgmental bigots who are so bold as to suggest that certain lifestyles are indecent.

Perhaps it is time to start treating those whose god is political correctness as the relics of the past, rather than a vital part of modern society. Perhaps it is time to realize that such people are much easier to replace than time-tested values such as sweetness and decency. It will be only when we once again affirm without apology that we admire virtue and disdain indecency, that our nation can return to a society that is worthy of God's children.

The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. Psalm 12:8, NIV

When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding; but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.

Proverbs 28:28, NIV