A four-day-old baby girl was rescued recently after she was found buried alive in a cemetery in India. An investigation has been launched to find her parents, who could be charged with attempted murder and child abandonment.
Such gender discrimination is pervasive in India, where millions of girls are unwanted and face rejection in their communities. According to the Invisible Girl Project, fifty million girls and women are missing from India’s population due to gendercide.
If you’re thinking that your community is far more enlightened than their society, consider this fact: an estimated four hundred teenagers are sold for sex every day in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. One of them is a fifteen-year-old girl who was being sex trafficked at NorthPark Center, located in one of the most affluent areas of Dallas. Sex trafficking is a $99 million a year business in my city.
“The reaction to drug addiction is safe injection sites.”
These stories illustrate the fact that ideas matter. The idea that women are inferior to men has led to the gendercide of millions. The idea that sex is a commodity and people are a means to profits has led to the entrapment of 4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation and 40.3 million in modern slavery.
One of the tragic ideas of our culture is that ideas are subjective statements of personal preferences and cannot be expressions of objective truth and morality. This was the idea Attorney General William Barr addressed in his remarkable speech to the law school of Notre Dame University last Friday, a message I hope you’ll read in its entirety.
Mr. Barr noted: “Religion helps frame moral culture within society that instills and reinforces moral discipline.” He added: “Scholarship suggests that religion has been integral to the development and thriving of homo sapiens since we emerged roughly 50,000 years ago. It is just for the…
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