Pilate may try to wash his hands, but he cannot escape the indictment of history. When a nation turns away from God, and rejects eternal verities of moral conduct, the Sodomitish atmosphere soon manifests itself. And even the fire that burns out city blocks and the violence that runs human blood down the gutters is, in a way, sent from heaven. When we sow the wind we reap the whirlwind. Another indication of the anarchy in our midst is the extent to which agitators, anarchists, rioters, looters, and hate peddlers are idolized by the people and praised in the press.
News media have their share of responsibility to bear.
News has always catered to the lewd, the violent and the degrading. With them it makes spicy reading. It is good business because that is what readers buy their papers to read. Men get their names in the papers, not because of anything uplifting and progressing that they have done but because of the protests they have led, the cities they have burned, the members of their own race they have sacrificed in the riots. The moral decay of the nation is indicated by the fashions of the day, and the pornography that floods the mails and the news stands.