This aberration consists of a systematic denial of reality. The negative consequences of the decadence are ignored by the simple expedient of treating such facts as if they were only opinions. When critics observe that sex education in government schools increases pregnancy and abortion, these facts are considered irrelevant because they are cited by the Christian right. Similarly, the observation that AIDS in the U.S. is a largely homosexual disease is termed homophobic. We are expected to believe that the homosexual AIDS patient was randomly struck, and that his disease does not reflect his sexual conduct.
Reality dies in a blizzard of false labeling.
It is our contention that moral decadence has been politically inspired - and that its defense has been political. A powerful weapon for the defense of moral turpitude has been invented by aligning moral failures with a political ideology. It allows immorality to parade in the false clothes of respectability, as a victim requiring protection of a noble political sentiment. Such an alliance allows the left to thrive by offering ideological protection against the claims of reality. It offers such protection to immoralists, to artists who cannot or will not perform by authentic esthetic standards, to the envious, to cultural rebels, to dissenting minority groups, to disbelievers and heretics, to those of unnatural affections and ambitions, and most recently to its own bastard children, to the neo-primitives and pagans of its own making.