There are people who keep attacking extramarital sex and gay sex. Yet they are doing nothing to fight sexual violence against children. That is unbelievable hypocrisy.
About half the people I know have been victims of incest. Some were victims of incest since they were 3 or 4. Social conservatives are doing nothing to fight this problem. Instead they see government’s attempts to fight this problem as government overreach and government tyranny. It is far greater tyranny to attack the sexual practices of consenting adults than to fight sexual abuse against children.
When incest and domestic violence are practiced in families, that discredits family itself. This then leads many sincere people to become anti-family. These people are confused. The problem is not with the value but with the misuses of the value. Family can, and should, be done better.
The sexual practices of consenting adults are between them and their partners. Whereas sexual abuse against children is everybody’s business. No child should have to put up with getting raped. And while everyone is expected to howl for the blood of a man who rapes somebody else’s children, incest, which has much worse effects than pedophilia, is protected within the family unit.
If you really want to confront sexual immorality, first confront incest. Incest is a far worse sin than extramarital or gay sex. It is abuse of power, and it is traumatizing someone for life. Consenting adults do what they do on their own free will and accord. Children who get raped do not.
So I want to confront hypocrisy on this subject. If you really want to confront sexual immorality, incest is the place to start. Family values means being good to your family; character means controlling yourself; and responsibility means being answerable for one’s actions. A person who commits incest fails by all rules of conservatism. And it is these people, not adults practicing loose sexuality, that need to be confronted first.