Social Conservatives

And the Religious Right were the boogey men of the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps the most sympathetic portrait was John Lithgow's preacher in Flashdance, a badly misguided man who wanted to ban dancing in his town. Dancing! What a misguided fool we said. Of course, these folks had lost the battle years before and have since faded away. For the most part.

Their point was that the loosening of moral standards and embrace of a more sexualized, boundary-less society would lead to very very bad things. So rock and roll music, alcohol, dancing, no school uniforms, etc would eventually lead to drug addiction and sexual depravity. Absurd! We all said.

But in light of the R Kelly and Michael Jackson documentaries, along with the fact that drug abuse now claims 70,000 lives per year in America, would it be fair to say....

They had a point.

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Because one takeaway I got from the docs was the music and fame was a critical component of how these guys lured their victims in. Am I wrong?

And now, how in this era that we live in, can people justify listening to Michael Jackson?