News for Youth Success | July 2026 | Absolute Sexual Ethics Is the Cultural Battle Line
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#200-Absolute Sexual Ethics Is THE Cultural Battle Line
Let's start with a reading from scripture. These scriptures are from the Daily Inspiration Men and Women Should Live Intoxicated by Conjugal Love This is the October 6th edition. They are from the Cheon Seong Gyeong, selections from the speeches of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
Section 4. The Secret of Entering Heaven
4.5. Conjugal love is the central flower of the ideal of love
All the harmonies and phenomena of this world that come out of love are as a fragrance to God. God wants to live within this beautiful fragrance and so He is seeking it. God’s love descends to the place of sexual relationship between husband and wife. This is where all creation and the universe are harmonized. (Blessed Family – 889)
If you think about a royal palace of love, there is a royal palace in the spirit world and a royal palace on the earth. Where do these palaces make contact? That is the question. In other words, where do human beings and God meet? The sexual organs that bring the unity of true love are the original land. Since this is the original land, in terms of palaces, it becomes the original palace. This is the palace that God initiates, and it is the first thing He initiates. It is the original palace. (265-215, 1994.11.21)
After happily living together with your spouse, what will you think about when you pass away? You will always think about the love organ. You will remember your spouse’s face and kiss. The only memories that remain after going to the spirit world are the ones about the union of the love organs when the husband and wife kissed and made love. Would you want to pass away holding and kissing the love organ? (269-57, 1995.4.7)
And that is the reading. As I said, today's topic is Absolute Sexual Ethics is the Cultural Battle Line. So we've had a really difficult September. Now it's October. We saw the assassination of our dear friend Charlie Kirk and a lot of other things are going on in this battle. But I'd like to point out and really bring to clarity that the real battle at its core is one of sexual ethics.
That means the ethics of a man and woman centered around marriage, family, all the things that if you read The Daily Inspiration, Reverend Samuel Moon is talking about on a daily basis. And we see even this is interconnected with the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
What happened, we find out that the person who assassinated Charlie Kirk was in a so-called "furries group" which is basically a sexual fetish type of group to a large extent. And we find out that among the "furries" there's something like 85% identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. And in fact we find that that person identified as transgender and was living with his confused transgender boyfriend. So is it any surprise that this is mixed in with violence?
What was the original violence? Well, if you read The Daily Inspiration we know the original violence was the rape of Eve. That the original fall of man involved sexual violence or going against the order of God, which is that sex is the most holy and most precious thing, as I just read, the Royal Palace. And it was violated in the worst way by the devil Satan. And if you study the Unification Principle, which you can do at our website visionroot.org you will understand exactly what I mean.
So when you get these strange subcultures, like people dressing as animals and then, animals, even in their sexual culture, like it's not like human culture, where it's for love. So even there is something there. So these things intersect, for instance, if you think about the violent attack on the school in Tennessee. A large number of those ideologically driven attacks, the majority of them were people who were transgender who were mentally ill or sexually confused and perpetrating violence. And it's not surprising. It's tragic because these things are all connected together because the original violence was sexual violence and it's an act against the very will of God, which is the world of beautiful and loving God-centered families.
So I would like to report an experience in the Urban Life Training program, and I've been working in the sexual absence education field and marriage education for more than two coming to three decades. So I remember during our time in Washington DC where we worked for almost two decades on this issue and founded Urban Life Training, which is short short name of ULTRA Urban Life Training & Reality Assessment Teen Choice. We had one of our STAR Guides (Students Teaching Abstinence and Responsibility), they made an image of a diamond titled "Guard Your Diamond and that was featured on our website. So some homosexual discussion group blog picked up on that because one day I was checking the web statistics there were 2000 people who had visited and looked at that image. Well they just thought it was really just a really funny or in a sick way funny that we're promoting sexual abstinence and the concept of "Guard Your Diamond".
In that kind of culture the sex is like you put a thing in a hole; that's about what it amounts to, put a thing in a hole. It's not a holy act it's it's something that can even be violent or sick or whatever you want to call it, but it's not a godly act and that's the real difference between God centered sexuality and this kind of debased sexuality. So that really is a dividing line.
VisionRoot heldfrom 2021 to 2023 eight workshops and the first one was called Dividing Line, Ending the Culture that Causes Sexual Abuse.
Part 2 of Absolute Sexual Ethics Is THE Cultural Battle Line will appear next month.
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What is the Solution to Declining Fertility Rates? Part 2
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Matching candidates take a Blessing Preparation Course and receive the Blessing, Capital B. The Blessing not just marriage. It is a sacrament that connects you to the love, life and lineage of God. The Blessing Preparation Course provides a strong, God-centered foundation for candidates to find their eternal match and to pursue Blessed marriage. UnionStation.love does not tell candidates where to go to church or not to go to church or anything like that but you'll learn about a God-centered viewpoint of marriage.
The identity of all matching candidates is verified. All candidates take the Blessing Preparation Course first before creating a matching profile. Parents are encouraged to be involved in the matching of their adult child. Stacey and I assisted our daughter in finding a spouse. Helping your child or children find a marriage partner is such an important role of parents. It is not realistic to think that your child will automatically find a spouse somewhere. You should assist them and help them and a good way to do that is to participate with them at UnionStation.love.
Stacey: It's an important milestone in life, finding a mate and getting married. If you son or daughter wants help, then help.
Richard: So you can participate with your young adult in the process of helping them find a marriage partner. What could be a more important decision? First of all I would say the decisions that they make and you guide them to make to be sexually active or not be sexually active. Clearly every parent I've talked to, and I've worked with over 3,000 youth that have received our Relationship Intelligence Training education and I've worked with over 300 youth personally in clubs in Washington DC and surrounding areas and none of the dozens and dozens or even 100 parents say 'I was sexually active, so I want my child to be sexually active'. Nobody says that.
Everybody wants their child to have the best future so we should own up to whatever our past was. If you have to have some honest discussion with your son or daughter then do it, but clearly guide them towards best future which is staying abstinent from sex before marriage and then getting married. Generally, they'll want to be married when they're at least 21 or older unless your child is very mature they could possibly get married earlier. But in general help them and participate in the process together. Do register at UnionStation.love with your adult child together you can participate with them they'll receive the excellent course there on the preparation for the Blessing of marriage and if they already have someone there engaged to or thinking about, this is a great way to see if that's really the right person by both participating in this Blessing Preparation Course together. And that's the most important thing, to prepare yourself, not looking for a person with certain physical or whatever characteristics although those are things we talk about or are discussed in each candidate's profile on the UnionStation.love matching site. But the most important thing is the first prepare yourself by taking the Blessing Preparation Course. What do you think Stacey?
Stacey: I think it's a good way to have God's view of marriage, what God thinks, and his love. And that will help.
Richard: Absolutely. That's another really good point. What is God's view point of marriage again this isn't really so much about religion. You can say it is religion but it's more like God created you and God created me. So what is God's view point of marriage? Talk about the decline of people having children, the decline of fertility the decline of marriage rate crashing in South Korea to a 55 a percent decline in the last 35 years but also a steep decline in all other developed Nations.
If this is a top priority for you as a person, a young person, you should make it happen by joining UnionStation.love. Also join Urban Life Training to make sure you stay on track with your life and with your life goals and that's really the most critical thing. Do you have a vision for your life where marriage is in your vision and if so do you have a vision where you're keeping sexual purity? And if you've already jumped into a relationship you can become a secondary virgin and then you can also participate in our site that way.
I think these are the most crucial issues in anyone's life and the fact that, first of all, they're not being talked about enough and they're being treated so casually. These are such crucial decisions. And not just being treated casually. In many schools or public schools children are indoctrinated the opposite. Oh, have sexual relationships. Oh, you might not be a boy. Oh, you might not be a girl. Like we've been sharing, 37% of girls in high school now don't identify as female, and this should be in the headlines. What! Thirty Seven percent of high school girls don't identify as female. Not 3%, 37% don't know whether they female! How could that be? Because of indoctrination by schools; because of indoctrination by social media. That's crazy. That's completely unacceptable. Let's turn this around. Let's make a new culture of family and marriage and God-centered marriage. Do take advantage of our resources at urbanlifetraining.org and UnionStation.love. Any thoughts as we wind it down, Stacey?
Stacey: You might learn something, by taking the course that will help you in your life.
Richard: Absolutely, you might learn something. A good point. Who doesn't need to still learn something. If you don't need to learn something and you know everything you've got a problem. Nobody knows everything.
Thank you for joining today as we talk about What is the Solution to Declining Fertility Rates? Clearly it has to do with marriage, family, a God-centered view of marriage. We should be talking about this constantly and we should stop the indoctrination of our children into gender ideologies and all kinds of destructive things. Especially with the breakdown of sexual ethics; we don't want that to happen. So as a parent you need to be involved. Do check out UnionStation.love and urbanlifetraining.org.
What is the Solution to Declining Fertility Rates? Part 1
I'm very happy to be joined by our lovely co-host, my wife Stacey Urban. This morning I'd like to talk about What is the Solution to Declining Fertility Rates? The basic idea is kind of like a no-brainer; duh, I mean people should get married and then have children.
But in our modern culture you don't hear about that being talked about as much as you would think you would. You have leading or figures or I don't know if you call them leading but well known figures like Elon Musk. He has like 14 children by four different women I guess he was married so maybe half of them are from his first marriage or about half but still that's not a very good example. Children need fathers and mothers and they need to be brought up in a safe stable environment. There really are a number of different issues going on here but the biggest one is that people aren't getting married and it's certainly not just in the United States.
People are marrying much later now. The average age of first marriage in the 38 most developed countries, so-called OECD countries is 32 for women and 34 for men. That's not the ideal age to bear children I mean it's okay but you're ready in a period of declining fertility. So what's going on what are some reasons for that kind of statistic? People are marrying later but why are they marrying later? A quiz on the United families International website is saying what are the most commonly cited reasons young adults choose to delay or avoid marriage and the biggest ones are concerns about financial stability and career goals and lack of pressure from family to marry.
In other words marriage has become even not expected necessarily in a lot of families. Shouldn't you as a parent or me as a grandparent be guiding our children about the importance of marriage and shouldn't we be guiding them not to have sex before marriage? When I talk to my neighbors and ask them, 'are you telling your children not to have sex before marriage?', the answer is not necessarily 'Yes". Even my own parents were delinquent in that area. You have to set that clear expectation and lay out all the benefits and of waiting to have sex until marriage and your religious faith could be the most important one, but even if you're not a person of faith there are many, many reasons to wait. When you subscribe to Urban Life Training you'll have access to all of our relationship intelligence materials, videos, discussions and much more. We can all then easily discuss these topics with our children. It doesn't have to be an awkward thing.
During the course of the so-called sexual Revolution the use of birth control became common. Before the sexual revolution, sex was equated with having children. Well, duh. But now there's been a decoupling well not now maybe that's been like 50 years now 60 years plus of sex decoupled from marriage and family. Actually this has been a disaster and is it mostly a disaster for women then for men, but none the less a disaster for both women and men. You see women getting hooked up with a bunch of psychopaths instead of waiting for marriage to have children and to create a family. And then there's a whole feminist movement, the movement to move women into the workplace. Oh, I've got to have a career. But all women, and men, too, should ask 'What's your most important thing I need to do in my life? I think it's sad for both women and men, since, of course, it takes two to have a family and to have children. Forming that family is best done, ideally, in your twenties not your thirties or even pushing 40.
The whole like idea of marriage has gotten skewed crazy. Do you have any thoughts on that Stacey?
Stacey: I think one thing is that having children and marriage can bring love into your life and that's something that I don't think should be missed.
Richard: We all desire love; we all need a partner of love. Many different factors too now becoming so common as I shared in my last episode, 70% of couples now say they're likely to cohabit at some point in their life. That's a bad idea, an idea that reduces your chance of marital success, increases your chance of sliding into a bad relationship and so many other things and from the man's point of view; of course you should have a godly man which is what you should look for as a woman, that's not going to be the case, but if you have someone else who's ungodly or as Godly as they should be, then if you're going to give yourself to a person, and it applies to men too but probably obviously affects women even more, then why would you do that if they're not giving you the commitment?
These things used to be common sense, like, duh, don't have sex until you're married, or like that if you don't want to have children don't have sex. But it's not just children of course there are STDs, emotional damage, spiritual damage, ruin of an otherwise good friendship, worry baby mama drama violent relationships and etc. etc. etc. etc., including dating violence, relationship violence, abusive relationships and relationships with psychopaths and all kinds of other things going on. Why would we expose yourself to all of that? Success through abstaining before marriage is what we emphasize in the Urban Life Training program. Urban Life Training is the non-profit Stacey and I cofounded, where you can form local chapters and also access materials for your own use is to teach your children abstinence.
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