"If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right." The 1972 song about an adulterer's refusal to stop an affair could very well be the theme for modern day America. We're going to do what we want, when we want, with whomever we want, even if it is wrong. Deep down we may know that some things are just wrong, but we don't care. All that matters is being "happy", whatever that means to me.

But do we really get away with it? Can we do wrong with impunity? Of course not! Our society is living in the garbage dump of broken and destroyed lives as people chase "happiness" without any concern about the consequences. Other people are used up and tossed aside like tissue paper. But, who cares as long as I'm happy!

No free society can long survive if it does not accept and determine to live by what is right, even when it is personally painful. The Law of Moses, and American law, are built on a moral foundation. If the foundation is removed the law and society will eventually collapse in chaos.

That's why at the end of his life Moses instructed Israel to reaffirm their covenant with God by building a stone monument on Mt. Ebal, cover it with plaster and write the law on the outside, then they were to build an altar to worship God and reaffirm their promise to obey God (Deuteronomy 27:1-10). That's the loving and right thing to do.