Sunday evening,
January 26th, CBS aired the annual Grammy Awards. This is supposedly a venue to recognize and
honor the best artists in the recording industry. I say supposedly because year after year amazingly
talented artists are ignored while trashy and relatively talentless media
darlings are handed their trophies.
I did not tune in to
the Grammys Sunday evening. I have long
since ceased to care about watching performers (I hesitate to call them artists)
being honored more for their outrageousness and immorality than for their
questionable talent. However, these
awards produced enough outrage that there were plenty of reports Monday morning
to give me a very good feel for the sewage called “entertainment” that was
provided. Here’s a little of what we missed…
Beyonce pranced around
in a one-piece outfit that revealed way more than it concealed. She and her husband’s, Jay Z, performance was
suggestive enough and vile enough to generate a twitter outrage among many
parents. Apparently, there was an
immediate storm of protest. Really? Surprised?
That’s what Beyonce and Jay Z have thrived on for years. She glories in the sexually suggestive and he
in the vile. Business as usual.
Katy Perry put on a
performance that could only be called, and in fact was called by several
observers, Satanic. Dressed as a witch
and surrounded by demons, Perry revealed her absolute contempt for Christianity
and her obvious entrancement with Satan.
This pop “star” who has made millions pandering to the lowest common
denominator morally continued to demonstrate her absolute disdain for the
Christian faith.
If there was a low
point to the evening morally, and apparently identifying that particular point
from a plethora of choices would be difficult, it came when Queen Latifah
presided over the “weddings” of 33 couples.
Of course these couples had to include both lesbian and male homosexual
couples who were being united in “marriage”.
This was supposed to be a demonstration of how “open” and “equality
oriented” our “artists” are today.
Needless to say, it was a shameless denigration of the sacredness of
marriage and an “in your face” challenge to traditional moral values. If it had been a farce it would have been tasteless. But it wasn’t a farce, and that makes it even
more heartbreaking.
Here is a snapshot of
where our culture is musically and morally as we begin 2014. And, frankly, we should be ashamed.
Dan
Rouse
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