Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion?

William Lloyd Garrison

William Garrison was an early abolitionist who called for the immediate freeing of the slaves decades prior to the civil war. His opinion was unpopular, both in the north and the south, and he operated an abolitionist newspaper for many years with a price on his head. He was concerned that right had lost its meaning, in the America of his day.

Fast forward 180 years and look at the news stories of our day. A child in Colorado suspended for sexual harassment. Good, good, we might all think, until we find that his "crime" was to kiss a fellow classmate on the cheek. They are six years old! Meanwhile, child molesters are free to walk the cities of our fair land, just as long as they are registered with the proper authorities.

Yesterday in the news, this item: A ten year old suspended from a school in Pennsylvania for a weapon's violation. Good, good, we might all think, until we discover that his "weapon" was a pretend bow and arrow. Meanwhile, abortionists are free to kill dozens of children each day - with very real weapons - and they are hailed as courageous, by self-described champions of women's rights in our modern day.

These same types of people mollify their concealed animosity towards children by passing laws that require some "toddlers" to ride about in car seats until they are thirteen or so - for their safety, mind you... as if they cared about children in the first place.

Our society, like other societies of the past, is filled with many types of people - some good, and some evil. The problem is, just as in the times of slavery, that the evil people occasionally get the power. And they will continue to use and misuse their power until godly people finally make a stand. This stand does need not be violent - I pray that it doesn't come to that point - but it nevertheless needs to be taken.

Now, I realize that I am probably just naive in my failure to see the danger from mad kissers and pretend arrow shooters, and perhaps am just too narrow minded towards child molesters and baby killers, but that's okay with me. I never have minded being on the opposite side of the truly depraved... even when they have power and popular opinion on their side.

Maybe we would all be better off if we became a bit more narrow minded towards the sinful, and exercised a bit more common sense with the innocent.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper.

Romans 1:28, NASB