NEW YORK – Robert Peters, the longtime president of Morality in Media, on Thursday issued a press release headlined “Connecting the Dots: The Link Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders.” In the release, Peters argued the sexual revolution is destroying Judeo-Christian faith and values in America, leading the nation toward a cultural decline.

“The underlying problem is that increasingly we live in a ‘post-Christian’ society, where Judeo-Christian faith and values have less and less influence,” Peters noted. “Among other things, Judaism and Christianity taught that murder was wrong, and that included murder motivated by anger, hatred and revenge. Both religions also taught that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves and to forgive others.”

The problem, Peters posited, is that too many Americans have replaced traditional religious values with secular ones, which has resulted in a society that glorifies killing.

“For many citizens, what has replaced Judeo-Christian faith and values is the secular value system that is reflected in films, rap/music lyrics, and videogames and on TV and now the Internet, where the taking of human life for just about any reason is commonplace and is often portrayed in an appealing manner and in realistic detail. Murder motivated by hatred and revenge is also justified,” he said.

Peters then connected the dots between secular society and the sexual revolution.

“This secular value system is also reflected in the ‘sexual revolution,’ which is the driving force behind the push for ‘gay marriage;’ and the Iowa Supreme Court decision is another indication that despite all the damage this revolution has caused to children, adults, family life and society (think abortion, divorce, pornography, rape, sexual abuse of children, sexually transmitted diseases, trafficking in women and children, unwed teen mothers and more), it continues to advance relentlessly,” he noted.

In the next-to-last paragragh of the statement that Peters averred it was not his intent to blame mass murder on gay marriage or its proponents.

“It most certainly is not my intention to blame the epidemic of mass murders on the gay rights movement!” he said. “It is my intention to point out that the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the decline in morality; and it is the decline of morality (and the faith that so often undergirds it) that is the underlying cause of our modern-day epidemic of mass murders.

“I would add that if conservative media’s irresponsible talk of revolution can ‘poison weak minds,’ the liberal entertainment media’s irresponsible portrayal of mayhem can also poison weak minds.”

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