Because we are among the last to change a particular social standard, the world always appears to be moving at a frightening speed toward anarchy. Theater scared the daylights out of the Puritans, and movies had Holiness people stocking up for the Last Battle, but the best place to find an Asburian on a Friday night is at the Carmike. The problem is that many people confuse the purpose of Christianity. It is a faith, not a moral code. Faith can have an absolute element, i.e. God, truth, love.
Moral codes are always relative to culture.
Even the Ten Commandments are a product of the moral element of the Christian faith, and not necessary for salvation. The reason that moral relativity is so often decried at Asbury is that the institution has other, though unstated, commitments than that to Christianity. Not only are we committed to social conservatism, but also philosophical and theological conservatism. While our community standards derive from social conservatism, our academic environment is greatly affected by the latter. For instance, ironically for a Protestant institution, one finds very few professors who endorse a subjective view of reality.