BY MICHAEL WESTFALL    

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The definition of an American icon has changed over the last fifty years. For Valentines Day country singer icon Willie Nelson debuted his groundbreaking “gay cowboy song” on the “anti-family” Howard Sterns satellite radio program. Nelson also sang in the recent gay movie “Brokeback Mountain”.

This 71-year-old braided balladeer’s new “gay” music holds the promise of further polluting America’s airwaves.

Likewise, Sony’s new recording label called “Music With a Twist” features artists who practice homosexuality. The label is connected to MTV’s gay TV network.  

At one time country music meant mom, home and apple pie. Men were men and “the ladies were glad of it”. Country music’s formula was filled with family values, nostalgia and the issues that everyday families face. Today things are changing.  Country music along with pop music is becoming a major factor in the downward spiral of America’s once wholesome culture. 

Much of today’s popular music and music videos are bursting with obscenities, foul language, and gory violence. It is designed to target, titillate and confuse the moral make up of American youth along with any morally challenged adults that will listen to this vulgar noise.  

MTV and similar channels reach hundreds of millions of young households. Their music videos contain strong violence, have tobacco or alcohol use in 25% of their videos and 75% of their videos involve sexual imagery. These anti-family messages are pickling our innocent children’s minds. Kids are immersed and swimming for their very souls in an entertainment ocean of profanity and confusing messages from singers like Nelson. 

Millions of parents who subscribe to cable or satellite services automatically support and subsidize this poison, which is targeting their kids hearts and minds. Parents should be incensed and appalled. 

For the celebrity and odor of the greenback dollar there are entertainers who are more then willing to stretch the envelope of decency. Some female singers eagerly become scorching risqué singers in their videos to help market their songs. Sex sells and they make it exceedingly pleasant for viewers to listen to their filthy and outrageous lyrics as they gyrate around in various stages of undress. 

These female entertainers don’t care what their images do to those who watch as they bump, grind and shamelessly slither their way to becoming soon forgotten celebrities. They behave in provocative ways and sing their little songs about compromising situations. They are the role models to the young girls in America, who wish to emulate these down home tacky “video babes”. 

These fleeting entertainers have parents and most have spouses and children. Shouldn’t they be contributing a little more to our culture with their fifteen minutes of fame then this obnoxious anti-family behavior? In God’s world their behavior is wrong, but in their world this ridiculous behavior is right. That is if there is enough money and attention garnered for them. 

There are likewise a number of ethically impaired male country singers. Their staged videos have contrived images of them as out of control macho men and super party animals that can out-drink and out-fight anyone in the bar. As at MTV, they surround themselves with morally challenged barely dressed female “dupes”. Their music can be as equally profane as the female singers. How pathetically arrogant and foolish these entertainers are. They also are wasting their fifteen minutes of fame by further degrading American culture with their irresponsible behavior. 

These men are idols to America’s impressionable young boys.

“The permissive entertainers” are missing a fleeting and golden opportunity to improve America’s values. They unfortunately refuse and instead oblige a morally bankrupt music industry by making the unspeakable politically correct while glamorizing prurient, decadent, anti-family messages through their lyrics and vivid videos. 

Ultimately, the results of this music and videos of this genre tend to move people away from the word of God and towards an eternity of damnation and despair. We are handing our youth over to this anti-family smut on a silver platter without even a fight! What must Jesus, who went to the cross and died for the sins of these very people, think as they freely reject his word and his love by offering themselves up on the devil’s alter? 

In today’s world Christians are labeled as accusatory cultists who are following the big myth. Remember that with no God there is no judgment and this automatically makes it politically correct to accept this trash as entertainment. 

By our culture denying the truth in the Bible, coupled with the entertainment industries drilling down with its permissive bag of sleaze, our culture is bowing to evil. In America powerful forces are coming together to eradicate all semblances of God and his word so people won’t know the difference between right and wrong and thus have no feelings of guilt, embarrassment or even shame. 

These powers are blurring the lines between evil, good, truth and lies. They are pushing for tolerance and open mindedness no matter what the cost is to society. 

 Yes, Willie Nelson and his gay agenda is an example of how things have changed in the last fifty years. 

To continue to confuse the issues, no matter how immoral or reprobate, only speeds up the destruction of morality in America. “It is the devil’s trap”. 

Just look around, how can any thinking person come to any other conclusion?

Michael Westfall

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