More prophetic utterances (not in the biblical sense) from Francis Schaeffer. He wrote this in the late 70's-
"On a humanistic base, people drift along from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes the thinkable as the years move on. By 'humanistic base' we mean the fundamental idea that men and women can begin from themselves and derive the standards by which to judge all matters. There are for such people no fixed standards of behaviour, no standards that cannot be eroded or replaced by what seems necessary, expedient, or even fashionable. … The thinkables of the eighties and nineties will certainly include things which most people today find unthinkable and immoral, even unimaginable and too extreme to suggest. Yet - since they do not have some overriding principle that takes them beyond relativistic thinking – when these become thinkable and acceptable in the eighties and nineties, most people will not even remember that they were unthinkable in the seventies. They will slide into each new thinkable without a jolt.’
- Francis Schaeffer, 1979 in "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?"
It's hard to believe we live in a time when having a penis no longer means you are a man and public bathroom usage is based on how you feel about your gender. Worse yet, if you think men shouldn't be allowed to use the same bathroom as women and girls, you are called a bigot.
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