Experts: Grammys Bring an Opportunity to Compare Worldviews (918 hits)
by Bethany Monk
It’s not unusual for the Grammys to glorify s*x, drugs and debauchery. If you watched Sunday’s show, you were encouraged to get stoned and to “stay up all night to get lucky.”
Nothing new, really — for Hollywood.
But the show also featured a rapper telling the nation — through song — that we need to redefine marriage. During an instrumental break, 33 couples, some of whom were same-s*x, exchanged rings. Queen Latifah officiated. And then Madonna showed up singing “Open Your Heart.”
Focus on the Family marriage and culture experts say this presents an opportunity to discuss the differences between a pop culture worldview and a Christian worldview.
“Worldview really answers the question: What is right; what is good; what is praiseworthy?” said Adam Holz, senior associate editor for PluggedIn.com. “Increasingly, the music world is offering a different view than we would offer as Christians.”
And that makes it a prime opportunity to have that conversation.
“It’s an issue that we’re seeing more and more,” Holz explained. “We wish that we didn’t have to discuss that issue with young people today, but they’re hearing about it. What’s changing is that, for decades, those of us who have watched pop music have seen the whole s*x, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll cliché get worked out in various ways. Now we’re seeing more and more high-profile artists really get on the gay marriage bandwagon.”
Glenn Stanton, director for Family Formation Studies at Focus, called the Grammys marriage ceremony a “stunt.”
“It’s such a confused irony, because we’re expected to believe that same-s*x marriage is just like any other marriage,” he said. “But people don’t go on TV, to some big event, and get married.
“You have Hollywood falling all over themselves to support anything other than male-female, married-for-life, raising-their-own-children marriage,” Stanton explained. “This is an indication to tell you same-s*x marriage is altogether different than marriage. They had the heteros*xual marriages in there to show that these are the ‘same things.’ But still, the heteros*xual marriages on the Grammys were not serious marriages. Who honestly thinks that?”
The marriage ceremony, he said, was “just goofy — plain goofy,” and shows a lack of seriousness about marriage.
“They’re serious about being provocative,” he explained, “and they’re serious about turning everything that matters about family on its head.”
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Is this Beyoncé type style of raunchiness what young girls are to emulate? God forbid it! Its really disgraceful, distasteful, and downright whorish. Anytime people speak out against what she does, then its assumed that people don't like her. That is not the case, but rather there are some things that ought not be worn except in the privacy of one's own bedroom.
