Adultery is fine – for the little people
by Laura Perrins, The Conservative Woman:
Moses came down from the Mount and said, I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is I got Him down to 10. The bad news is adultery stays.
Everyone has a sly laugh at this joke, because we know how weak humans are and how strong the sex drive is – the soul is indeed willing but the body is weak. However, God put that pesky commandment in there for a reason: namely, adultery destroys not only marriages but civil society itself if it takes place in an approved and widespread fashion.
The BBC are in their St Augustine phase: Lord, make me good, just not yet. In fact the BBC are saying, Lord, just don’t make me good, as it is too bloody hard. This is why they relentless push adultery as not just a human failing but a positive good in all their crappy dramas, the latest being Wanderlust with publicity which, in the BBC’s own words, ‘asks whether lifelong monogamy is possible – or even desirable’. As Peter Hitchens says, ‘You know as well as I do that they’re not really asking.’
The irony here is the BBC believe they are being terribly edgy in promoting this childish nonsense, when the truth is that adultery and all the other options such as ‘open relationships’ (also pushed on iPlayer) have been around for millennia. The radical change came with Judaism and the Christianity which orientated intimate sexual acts to one’s spouse.
But as Hitchens pointed out on Sunday, the ruling elite hate marriage, and have waged war upon it for decades. ‘Our modern upper crust hate marriage because it is a fortress of private life. They hate it above all because they can’t control it, because it is the place where the next generation learn how to be distinct, thinking individuals instead of conformist robots.
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