Unpopular Realization

After hearing of the handful of recent "suicides by bullying" in the news in the past few weeks, it made me think about these young adults and teens who chose to end their lives.  I feel really, really sorry for them--that they felt they had no one to talk to who would understand their problems, who would support and protect them, and who might help them see 'this too shall pass'.

The really curious thing I came to understand, especially in light of the Rutger's student whose gay sex encounter was secretly taped by his roommate and them broadcast on the Internet, is, that gay or straight, had he lived a chaste life that would have never happened.

He would not have been taped having sex.  He wouldn't have been outed on the world wide web.  And I like to think he would have still been here to play the violin and go to college.

A while ago a high school girl hanged herself after some risque, sexually charged images--shot for her boyfriend at the time--were shared on cell phones and Facebook by the boyfriend after they broke up. 

If she was living a virtuous life, she would not have ever taken those kind of photos in the first place, and her death could have been avoided.

I know in today's society it isn't considered realistic to live a morally pure, sexually free single life.  But it occurs to me that today, more than ever, our kids, our young adults, and our friends need to know that option is still avavailable.  In fact, it is not such a bad way to live when you consider the trouble you automatically avoid simply because you have chosen NOT to put yourself in the way of danger, bullying, or judgement.

God's laws have been the foundation of society's laws for millenniums.  There is a reason He gave them to us.  He is our Father, and He loves us.  He doesn't want to see His children hurt each other--especially when we can choose better.