What is Courage?

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In watching our local news this morning I saw a report that the abortion rate rose nearly 20 percent in the state where I live. They cited a decline in funding for family planning as the cause. This makes absolutely no sense to me.

Why is this cited as the cause while the elephant in the room is being ignored?

Let’s call this for what it is. It is a result of the moral decline in our society. 

As a culture we are being expected to be tolerant, accepting, and even supportive of EVERYTHING, which is nothing but a decline in our moral values.

How can we not expect that with a decline in moral values, a decline in moral behavior will only follow?

I am not sure what makes this a difficult concept to understand.

Case in point. Caitlyn Jenner.

This issue has been beaten to death so I am not looking to jump on the bandwagon. I am not here to debate Bruce Jenner’s choice to become Caitlyn. It makes no difference to me whether Bruce is Bruce or whether Caitlyn is Caitlyn.

What does make a difference to me, however, is that people like Roxanne Jones writes this on CNN.com: “When I saw the Vanity Fair magazine cover of Caitlyn Jenner, my first reaction was: Yes, love it. Good for you Caitlyn, claim who you are and live it. For me, it is so empowering that Caitlyn had the courage to tell her story.” *see footnote.

Why is this being sold to our society as courage?

Isn’t this the face of courage?

What about this?

When did we as a society go from things like this being the face of courage to the face of Bruce Caitlyn Jenner being the face of courage?!

What are we telling our young people about courage?!

As I mentioned before, I am not here to debate his/her choice. We live in America. He/she is free to live his/her life in whatever way he/see sees fit as long as it is within the realm of the law, which this clearly is.

My issue is in this being paraded around as courage.

Then, it goes on from there. On June 1st, ABC News reported that Caitlyn Jenner will be honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs this summer.

This is not who I find courageous. I don’t think the majority of society would call him or her courageous in their own words.

But with articles being written about Caitlyn Jenner being courageous and with ESPN calling her the most deserving of this award, we are being told that this is what courage is. Courage is being redefined, taking our moral values as a whole down with it. Caitlyn is the new face of courage.

An increase in the abortion rate and Caitlyn Jenner being named as ESPN’s most courageous person of the year are only two small outcomes in where our society is headed.

The number of positive transformations our country has made over the years is large, but transforming the face of courage will just not go down as one of them. Ignoring what transformations like this are doing to our society as a whole is not a positive transformation either.

Unless we as a country set on the right course again and return to some sense of a moral code, courage will not be the only character trait that is transformed and then sold to us as what we the American people need to believe. I only hope it’s not too late.

I am proud to be an American and I am glad that Bruce/Caitlyn has the legal right and the financial means to live the way he/she feels is best for him/her. This is the beauty of America. However, I just don’t like being told that I am to see this as courageous. I will continued to see the things pictures above as courageous, and I will teach my kids this definition of courage as well.

To read the full piece by Roxanne Jones, go here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/06/opinions/jones-jenner-ashe-award/index.html