No Big Deal

Do you remember the story of Kelly Flinn? If not, Kelly Flinn was the Air Force’s first female B-52 pilot. She was the “poster woman” for women in the military, but her career came to a crashing halt when the news broke of her impending court-martial for:

• Adultery
• Lying
• Failure to obey orders.

In an effort to avoid court-martial, Flinn sought and received a general discharge from the Air Force.

Some thought she got off too easy.

They believed she should have been court-martialed. Others argued that she was unfairly singled out because she was a woman. And, many on both sides seemed to think that too big a deal had been made out of her adultery. There were calls from many to rewrite the standards regarding sexual conduct.

It was a sad commentary on the state of morality in our nation.

Far too many people in this nation were neither bothered nor troubled by what she did. Adultery, lying, and insubordination are relatively minor things, they argued. Everybody does it! Why pick on poor Kelly Flinn?

This cavalier attitude toward morality is the result of decades of indoctrination in:

• Evolution
• Atheism
• Agnosticism
• Humanism

In the minds of many people, there simply are no moral standards any more.

Anything goes. Who are we to say that anything is necessarily right or wrong? This thinking reaches into the highest levels of government and the media. I am grateful the Air Force understood the difference between right and wrong, but I can’t help but wonder if that would still be true today. So many things which were once acknowledged to be sinful are now openly embraced, including adultery, homosexuality, abortion, and gambling, to cite just a few examples.

Right and wrong are not arbitrary issues.

The Bible offer clear guidelines from the Creator as to acceptable and unacceptable conduct. We all suffer when those rules are ignored.

Isaiah wrote: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20). We would do well to heed his warning.

— Roger