The Sexual world and denial of consequences.

Over the past few years I have watched as laws and standards have changed dramatically for the people of this country, and frankly it is very disturbing to watch the reaction and witness the outrage of people over not wanting to deal with the consequences of their choices.

I was finally prompted to sit down and write this after being flooded by content related to the subject in my social media feeds. I see things from all different sides of the argument, and it really just hurts my heart to see where we are after how far we have come.

We have women screaming for the right to murder the unborn for no other reason than "because they want to, and it it's their body" and other people complaining because DOGE stopped the use of 50 million dollars of US taxpayer money to send condoms to whatever foreign country it was. I realize that not every situation can be as simple as black and white, but when we CHOOSE to do something and then claim that we should be free from the natural consequences of that CHOICE; our society cannot sustain itself. Seriously think about it, if we start doing that then it can be applied to every single person in every single situation. Where does it end? I realize that the abortion issue is a very large conversation that will likely go on for many years to come, well after this author or you are long gone, but the facts aren't going to change no matter how long society decides to fight over it. And it is no different that the idea that we as US taxpayers should be funding contraceptives to other countries to help aid against the spread of HIV. I cannot be the only person who is totally bewildered by this concept. I realize that there will also be special cases in all situations where nonconsensual acts happen, as I, myself was a victim as a teen. But where grown adults are concerned who make an unforced CHOICE to engage in sex which can lead to pregnancy or STD's not to mention other issues, should not be free from the consequences of the choice, nor should others who had no part in the choice be forced to pay for it. I look now at a world every day where having sex with whomever is as normal as eating. Sex has become this crazy casual thing that you just do with whoever to satisfy an urge, and whatever comes of it if anything, is not our problem to deal with if we simply don't want to. I often hear excuses about how people who cannot provide for a child and how the world is over run with orphans who need homes, but for some reason it never occurs to these same people that if you simply CHOOSE not to have sex with people who are not your spouse, and when you are not ready for a family then you would have far less to worry about. If I choose not to engage in sex then I am at no risk for pregnancy or STD's or any other issue that could arise from it.

We all were granted the gift of free will at creation, and whether you believe in God or not , doesn't change your free will. There are natural consequences for our choices and free will, that is just a fact. As I sit in my vehicle writing this I see a perfect example before me. It happens to be raining just now, and the natural consequence of that is the ground is wet. Everything in the path of the rain is wet, and there is nothing the ground can do about it other than to just be wet, and deal with it until it fades and dries. Thus is often true in life as well, but rather than enduring and getting through the things we choose to put ourselves in, we would rather someone bring in a preverbal towel to dry it up so we don't have to deal with it, or make someone give us their umbrella so we can try to play in the rain without getting wet at all, while they suffer in it paying the price for our choices.

Whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we admit it or not, we all make a choice to be the person we are and do the things we do and honestly, I personally think it’s time we get back to being held accountable for our own CHOICES and dealing with the consequences of those choices. Otherwise as a people we are never going to get better. We learn because of the consequences we endure. We learn because we endure the things that make us uncomfortable. We learn because many of the things that make us uncomfortable are lessons, we walk through. When we stop allowing ourselves to feel the things that make us grow, we will stop being able to function as a society. As children many of us learned the stove was hot not because a parent told us it was hot, but because we touched it & felt the consequence of the choice we made.