tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387409300437595450.post6908277067250980197..comments2023-05-12T11:17:28.809-04:00Comments on SportsLeader: Yeardley Love's FuneralUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387409300437595450.post-26839647107824020682010-05-28T16:23:26.725-04:002010-05-28T16:23:26.725-04:00Very good article with some very thought provoking...Very good article with some very thought provoking issues! However, until we as a culture, including the Church (and by that I mean any and all 'faiths' that profess Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord whether or not they're actually teaching and discipling people along those lines), stand up against the laissez-faire and non-chalant attitude, and by our silence, acceptance of the casual free-sex attitudes in our media, education, govt., and yes again, the Church, we will continue to see this type of absolute disrespect for life, self and others! <br /><br />The casual sexual mores (actually a total lack thereof) in most of our culture, taught by so-called 'sexperts' from SIECUS, Advocates for Youth (how's that for a fallacious name) and Planned Parenthood (most of which have their roots in education and govt.) through our education systems, encouraged, promoted and glorified in the media and even accepted or taught as 'true and right' in many churches today has created a society that totally lacks Love and Respect, beginning with self and extending to others. This carries over into every part of our lives, mostly relationships, including those of coaches and athletes! While there may not be obvious or even evident sexual issues at hand in many cases, there is still, based on this type of pervasive and horrible so-called research and teaching, an underlying lack of respect for humanity, personhood and people in general that permeates and affects all of these issues and is very much at the heart of what we heard and saw regarding Ms. Love, her murderer and the others alluded to in this article! <br /><br />It begins in the Home, then the Church...and then we'll begin to see it once again positively affecting our education, media and govt., along with every other realm. The one thing we do have in Athletics and coaching is a captive audience if we will just take this to heart and reverse these horrible trends and teachings and begin to re-instill Love, Respect and all other character values that flow directly from these! We must also work to help parents understand this and work together with them in this respect! <br /><br />That is what SportsLeader, FCA, AIA and other excellent groups are working to do. The Character issues of Truth, Love and Respect are at the core of this problem and must be addressed in a Truthful way and not the way the world describes and defines any of these! However, if we won't take a stand and seriously deal with this ROOT issue, their approaches, while temporarily effective, will go the way of the rest of our culture and only address symptoms rather than causes and we will continue to see more and more cases of Yeardley Love!!! <br /><br />Thanks and... God bless in Christ!<br />In His service<br />GregCoach Greg Williamsnoreply@blogger.com