THOUGHTS FROM THE STATE DIRECTOR
As I listened to heart-wrenching testimony in the House
Health and Human Services committee this week, my heart was
broken by stories of women ravaged by cervical cancer. The
fear in their voices of recurrence and the panic over the
epidemic of the human papillomavirus (HPV) that is ravaging
our young people was very real. The women who testified
about their experience with a tiny viral pathogen that is the
cause of ninety-nine percent of cervical cancer were
experiencing the fall-out of a society that insists on breaking all
the rules with impunity. For years CWA and other organizations
have said that condoms do not completely protect against
sexually-transmitted diseases, particularly HPV. However, those
who promote “safe sex” beat the drum of condoms so loudly
with the help of the media that our voices were drowned out.
Now, even the CDC has had to admit that condoms do not
completely protect vulnerable young girls from these often
deadly pathogens.
I don’t want to follow the rules
It is human nature to chafe at rules and regulations; our fallen
state demands that our every need and want be satiated
immediately. The so-called sexual revolution claimed that we
could have it all . . . we could use sex as a way of assuaging
those needs. As a result, men and women became tools of
pleasure for each other in a series of “hook-ups.” Kinsey and his
cohorts said that any sexual outlet was okay and even
beneficial, including sex with children. Americans and the
world bought the lie with gusto . . . the media and science
shouted to the world that the old taboos had come down, that
modern men and women were “liberated.”
Liberation lost
I saw no liberation in that committee this week. From the real-
life testimonies of tragic medical consequences to horrendous
pictures of the physical ravages of this disease, I saw only pain
and panic. Now we are told that HPV, a disease that is
spread by sexual contact, is an epidemic, particularly in our
young women and that our 9-12 year-old girls must be
vaccinated before they can enter school.
Consequences
Sin does not come without consequences. As David found out
to his bitter regret, no matter how sorry we are afterwards, there
are costs when we step outside of God’s boundaries. God’s
insistence on purity and holiness are not odious burdens a
punitive god places on his subjects; they are for our own
good.
God’s perfect plan perverted
Satan cleverly has perverted God’s beautiful and perfect
creation because he is perverted and twisted, the father of lies
and murder. God’s plan for the sexual union, a way for man to
participate in the creative process and to provide pleasure
within the marriage bed is now merely a union of two bodies
seeking their own pleasure. The creation of millions of
children, who are the embarrassing evidence that must be
hidden and removed by abortion, is another tragic result of our
disobedience. In addition to abortion, cervical cancer, lifelong
viral diseases and infertility, women and men are feeling
absolute hopelessness as they realize they have not connected
in a meaningful way with their partner in sex, but have been
used. God’s first institution, marriage, is under attack by a world
that cannot submit to His standards and the result is misery and
chaos not only in serial marriage and divorce, but in the court
system that has to decide what is best for the children who
stand on the sidelines of their parents’ battles. Infidelity breeds
infidelity; successive monogamous relationships that end when
one partner is no longer satisfying their lusts and their needs
breed insecurity and hopelessness.
Broken hearts cannot be fixed by medicine
We can develop vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases and
we can find cures. We can adapt our basic traditional values to
adapt to a culture that cries, “Feed me; give me; let me,” but
we cannot mend the broken lives and hearts. No vaccine, no
scientific revelation and no new theology can restore what has
been lost.
Real protection
Parents naturally want protection for their daughters; we want
that, too. The best way to protect our daughters and grand-
daughters is to teach them that they are God’s “masterpiece,”
created especially for the good works that He has ordained
before the foundation of the earth. We need to teach our girls
and boys that the sexual union is a picture of Christ and the
church, not recreation. We need to quit assuming that our
children cannot say no to sex outside of marriage. We need to
remember that we are higher than the animals and that we are
made in His image. We desperately need to teach our younger
generation that actions always have consequences and that sin
takes us farther, costs more, and its results last longer than we
could ever have imagined.
Think about it.
In Him,
Judy Smith
State Director
Concerned Women for America of Kansas
P. O. Box 11233
Shawnee Mission, KS 66207
Phone/Fax: 913-491-1380
Email: director@kansas.cwfa.org
Web site: kansas.cwfa.org |