September 12, 2016 @ 9:30 AM
This has got to be the bottom of the barrel of modern-day America's buffoonery. Steve Sarkisian has sued USC for discrimination against his alcoholism. Apparently, Sarkisian feels his drunkenness, which rendered him incapable of earning his multi-million dollar salary as the Trojan's football coach, is something for which he should neither be held responsible nor accountable. On the other hand, according to Sarkisian, USC should be forced by the courts to pay him millions of dollars for terminating his multi-million dollar contract rather than allowing him to stay on at the school and stagger up and down their sideline.
It was Karl Menninger who asked the question, in the title of his 1973 book, “Whatever Became of Sin?” Well, in today’s America there’s simply no such thing. Drunkenness, for instance, is no longer a sin, but a disease. Therefore, drunks are now alcoholics to whom we must show pity, not prejudice. To refuse to hire a drunk or to terminate one for their inability to perform the job for which you hired them could actually put your business at risk in present-day America, by subjected you to a financially ruinous lawsuit for discriminating against alcoholics.
Do you realize that you are now living in a country that actually protects sin and punishes anyone daring to speak out or stand up against it? Civil rights have now been extended in these United States to protect sinners from being discriminated against on the basis of their sinful behavior, which is no longer deemed sinful behavior. Instead, it is behavior exempt from personal accountability, because it is seen as attributable to disease or DNA. Whichever the case, the poor sinner is to be pitied and protected, since he or she is incapable of altering their induced or innate behavior. The only people being condemned without pity in present-day America are intolerant people who still believe in sin and personal accountability. And my fellow evangelicals still believe there’s hope that America will repent of its sin and return to God before God’s judgment falls upon our sin exonerating nation? Go figure!