Well Pete,
She is a superstar, mostly to children. So, it is going to be what it is. Bubble gum music. Which is fine for kids, and far more preferable to Eminem's lyric of raping his own mother. Don't get me wrong, as rappers go, some of Eminem's songs are near genius (as rapping goes) and he is one of the best that has ever taken up a mic. But his stuff is really not for young kids.
Miley Cyrus also has more adult country fare as well. Some of it is really good. Her song "The Climb" is probably somewhere high on the charts right now, cause I hear it played all over the place, and it is a beautiful and inspiring song.
The reason their family's morality means alot to me, is that it is GOOD, in fact GREAT for young people to have options, to have role models that don't have to be all about sex. Sex is wonderful, and also very powerful, but it's consequences can be VERY serious as well, emotionally, physically (babies - diseases) and the Left's lack of acknoledgement of this is CRIMINAL. And it is part of the reason there is such high teen pregnancy rates, and other teens doing adult-like crimes. Kids are not emotionally prepared to embrace sex at too early an age, any more than they are prepared, to be running away from home, doing drugs, and being unsupervised. These things go hand in hand. Lack of discipline in ONE area (sex) is related to lack of discipline in all others. These things go hand in hand. Give a child an inch and they WILL take a mile.
My little righteous rant on this, is for a reason...
EVEN ADULTS, tend to forget that EVERYTHING IS RELATED, the Butterfly Effect on an emotional level. The smallest things can bring GREAT impact in life. For good or for harm. We should not forget the role that WE ALL PLAY in this continuum.
I shared a story I think, a long while back, how my mother, when I was an adult, gave me a letter from my father, after he was murdered. She apologized for not giving it to me when he had sent it.
We were traveling on the road in her band when he sent it. I was 16 or 17. He had moved to California, had remarried, and had a very good job. He wanted me to visit for the summer. He missed me, having not seen me in 4 years or so, whatever it had been.
My mother didn't give me the letter, because she knew life on the road was difficult for a kid, and she was afraid that if I visited for the Summer, I would likely have stayed for good.
She was right.
That's exactly what I would have done.
Whether she made the right decision or not is immaterial now. But at the time, when I finally received the letter, I was a young adult, who was married, and living in Arlington Virginia, serving Senators and Congressmen and the world's elite as a bartender at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, I realized HOW DIFFERENT not only MY LIFE, but MY WIFE'S and MY FRIENDS, and many others, would have changed, all for one reason...
WHETHER SHE GAVE ME A SINGLE LETTER OR NOT.
I would have grown up in California instead. I would have married someone there. I would not have been caught up in a destructive religious cult, but also, would not have become one of it's most powerful critics, being interviewed worldwide for my personal experiences with it's leader. I would not have taken religion and God so seriously, because I would have been more like my father. Drinking constantly, and egging people into fights, maybe even becoming racist like he was, and maybe even getting murdered, as he did, because of the hate he had in his heart for some.
Many, many things, and many, many lives, would be different right now, and likely not for the better, had my mother given me that letter. I have helped MANY people escape that destructive cult, WORLDWIDE. I STILL get letters from family members who have not seen their son or daughter for decades, and have no way of finding them. I would not have taken God's love so seriously, and would not have worked so hard, to share it with others. A lot of good came, from me not getting that letter.
One simple act, had HUGE consequences for MANY lives.
I vowed then, that I would not forget the lesson, of how the smallest decisions, can result in enormous consequences.
And so, the talent level (although she is very talented) of Miley Cyrus, or her Father, are FAR LESS SIGNIFICANT, than the GOOD that family is seeking to accomplish in the world, by setting a beautiful example of family love and family values.
Go see the Hannah Montana movie.
It is an example of how they are doing this.
God is blessing them, and using them to help a younger generation realize that...
- People from the South are not stupid rednecks who are there only to be laughed at and mocked by the supposedly brighter elite.
- Christian values are good.
- Family is important. Respecting elders. Visiting family members. Not getting so lost in your successes that you forget family.
- Dad's can be instrumental in guiding children toward goodness and being a rock of a family. Unlike the Hollywood example in SO MANY MOVIES and TV SHOWS that Dads are incompetent and irresponsible idiots, who are merely there to be laughed at, and SAVED by their more intelligent children.
Make no mistake. There is an ASSAULT on the traditonal family values that are at the ROOT of safe and civil societies.
It is actually PHENOMENAL that a show "Hannah Montanna" that lifts up the role of a Dad, and of Family, and does not glorify sex among CHILDREN, is as successful as it is.
It is a force for good, and should be lifted up and appreciated as such.
If we are not SUPPORTING and ENCOURAGING good things, by default, we are supporting the other things, that help break our society down.
A little support and encouragement can go a LONG WAY!
That's all.
We have to live in the societies we are creating for ourselves. And our children have to suffer, when we are being silent, or helping destroy those values that will give them a chance at life.
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