"Billion Dollar Pawns"
e-book from "24 Hot Potatoes in the Church Today" 

chapter 6 pawns

A view at the deceptive importance of clothing and personal appearance in today’s society.

Some years ago, as I drove across a plaza parking lot near Toronto, I saw two little faces that urged me to write about this issue. Little faces whose innocence had been violated by deceptive tools of our generation.

The two girls also displayed these tainted looks: punkish and seductive hairdos, oversized earrings; sleeveless shirts hanging down over one shoulder; tight skirts way above the callow knees. Even their speeches and behavior carried that contemptuous air... daring and rude that defy even the most humble adult.

Every day, we can see these young girls in schools, and on the streets of our cities, half dressed in flimsy outfits. As if a special license is granted in the hot summer months, they wear thin, clinging bathing suits to walk to the public swimming pools; they dot the line-ups of fast food restaurants with long T-shirts hanging over bikinis that make it look as if they forgot to dress the bottom half of the body. I’m thinking of the message they send to the members of the opposite sex when there is such a problem with promiscuous sexual behavior in this generation.

What do parents think of this?...

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