Photos and celebrities

By: American Decency Staff

The slippery slope. 

It’s late in America. This is just another evidence of it – below.

Now we find that along with other “celebrities”, nude pictures have been uncovered of Justin Verlander, former Cy Young award winner for the Detroit Tigers and Kate Upton (Sports Illustrated “super model”)  together.  Shocking?  Sadly, it’s not shocking to most reading this. 

Kate Upton is no celebrity.  I’ll let you fill in the blank as to what she is as she makes herself available for photo shoots of herself in various stages of dress and undress.

Justin Verlander a celebrity?  If a celebrity is someone who has little to no regard for moral leadership, then he would be a celebrity.

Robert Bork wrote the following in his book entitled “Slouching Toward Gomorrah (1996) –  (subtitled Modern Liberalism and American Decline): 

And, for a time. Order did seem to take care of itself. But that was because the institutions – family, church, school, neighborhood, inherited morality – remained strong.  The constant underestimation of their value and the continual pressure for more individual autonomy necessarily weakened the restraints on individuals.  The ideal slowly became the autonomous individual who stood in an adversarial relationship to any institution or group that attempted to set limits to acceptable thought and behavior.

That process continues today, and hence we have an increasingly disorderly society. 

William Bennett, in Robert Bork’s book, quoting:  During the past 30 years, we have witnessed a profound shift in public attitudes.  We Americans now place less value on what we owe others as a matter of moral obligation; less value on sacrifice as a moral good, on social conformity, respectability, and observing the rules; less value on correctness and restraint in matters of physical pleasure and sexuality – and correlatively greater value on things like self-expression, individualism, self-realization, and personal choice.” 

Bork continues:  Though I think the shift in public attitudes merely accelerated in the past thirty years, having been silently eroding our culture for much longer, it is clear that our current set of values is inhospitable to the self-discipline and hospitable to no-fault divorce and self-esteem training. 

How do people become celebrities like Verlander and Upton who are idolized (inanely) by millions?

I welcome your thoughts.  I’ll share in a future posting (with names kept anonymous).

Some major league teams still are very concerned what their fans think of their players.

Take action:

Here is what the action message states:

To whom it may concern:

Baseball is a national treasure enjoyed by young and old down through many years.  

Though I realize that a player has a right to privacy.  Nonetheless, I for one want you to know that our young are influenced by star athletes both on and/or off the field.

Live-in relationships, sexual innuendo, news regarding date rape, nude photos of players and their “super model” significant other is degrading to the Detroit Tigers and/or any professional team that is marked by such activity.

A true celebrity – a person to be looked up to – is a person who is marked by character that is not self-manufactured or phony but comes from aligning their lives with their Creator.

Proverbs 1:7  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge:  but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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