Everywhere I look online I see stories and articles about how people fought the system and won the rite to do x y and z. LGBTQ won the rite to get married. Women are winning the rite to not only have abortions but to also not have to put up with any "stop and think about this" barriers. The government is fighting to enshrine a person's rite to use washrooms according to the gender he / she self-identify as. We now have the rite to assisted suicide, the rite to sterilize one's self, and hopefully one day everyone will be forced to accommodate the rites of a disabled person to barrier free accessibility. I am no social scientist but it seems to me as though we are continually moving towards a society with no taboos and no restrictions save for new taboos and restrictions for those who wish to hold to traditional taboos and restrictions but I digress.
I have to wonder if, with so much freedom, restraint will be an important idea for the North American Christianity. As in, "just because you have the societal freedom to do as you please does not mean that you should use your societal freedom as an excuse to practice evil."
I suspect that the concept of evil will be challenged as it already has been. "What? No, homosexual practice isn't evil! It just... isn't. Unless you take the Bible literally or read it through heterosexual bias... or follow the faith traditions regarding marriage that God's people and the Church have always embraced since the beginning... which you shouldn't." As society continues to embrace current leftist social political agenda the Church will face pressure to conform from without and from within.
I suspect that those who truly desire to know and love the Lord will exercise and preach restraint in accordance with the Scriptures and Traditions of the Church.
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