If you've never played Jenga, you ought to give it a shot. This challenging game starts you off with a tower of wooden planks. Each layer is made up of three planks that lay right against each other. So it's a loose—but solid—tower to start with. Plenty strong.
Everybody takes turns removing one of the three planks that make up a layer…and placing it on top of the tower—to make it grow taller. You quickly learn that if pulled out slowly and carefully, the tower can stand on a layer of just two…or even one plank. The net effect, of course, is that as the tower grows taller, the thing grows wobblier. And you don't even notice the transition from sturdy to wobbly. But eventually it collapses with a crash.
This is exactly what has been happening to issues of morality in America.
Within the lifespan of most anyone able to fully comprehend this little piece, sex outside of marriage was viewed by the majority culture (not just the Bible, but the culture) as wrong. Same for divorce. Same for homosexuality.
NOW, the most vocal (though NOT the most numerous) segment of our culture blazingly insists that to DENOUNCE homosexuality is wrong. That sex outside of marriage is a RIGHT….that it's WRONG to repress sexual urges of most any kind. Do you see how the planks have been removed?
Previously, these things definitely went on: divorce, cohabiting, gay marriage….but now they are being touted as normal. Good. Even noble. And anyone who would oppose them is bigoted, close minded, stupid, and narrow. Not to mention boring.
I'm not suggesting that these kinds of behaviors didn't go on 30 or 50 or 100 years ago. But there's an enormous moral difference between a culture that tolerates these things as opposed to a culture that celebrates them.
Said another way, our culture's truth tower has gone wobbly. To the point we are approaching a certain collapse.
It's odd how those in the very act of making the tower weaken are least able to see the wobble. All of which illustrates the biblical claim, “There is a way which seems right to a man. But its end is the way of death.”