When North Carolina passed a law requiring individuals to use public bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex, The Charlotte Observer blasted back: “Yes, the thought of male genitalia in girls’ locker rooms—and vice versa—might be distressing to some. But the battle for equality has always been in part about overcoming discomfort—with blacks sharing facilities, with gays sharing marriage—then realizing that it was not nearly so awful as some people imagined.”

So giving males the right to share women’s bathrooms is now on par with the fight against Jim Crow laws! Our views of social deviancy have been turned upside-down. Homosexuality and transgender behavior are no longer considered socially deviant. But dare to speak against such behavior? You’re labelled “homophobic,” or worse, “bigoted.” Feel a sense of modesty in the presence of a naked man? You’re also a deviant; at least those at The Charlotte Observer, would have us think so. They advise women to “Get used to it!” to promote transgender equality.

What a far cry this is from the standards of decency and morality once equated with civilized society. But there’s more to it than that—this is actually part of an organized effort to subvert American morality.

When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and they realized that they were naked, they attempted to cover their nakedness by sewing together fig leaves. God gave them animal skins for coverings, shedding blood to provide a sinner’s covering, anticipating the time when Jesus’ blood would be shed so that sinners could be covered with His righteousness.

From that time onward, societies have varied in their approaches to nakedness. God gave specific commands prohibiting exposing the nakedness of others, and the prophets spoke metaphorically against Israel’s “nakedness” and harlotry in pursuing other gods. The Greeks, on the other hand, exalted the nude human body as an object of aesthetic beauty. In Rome, the senators wore togas as a symbol of their office, and respectable Roman matrons were modestly clothed. However, slaves were unclothed as a symbol of their servitude. In modern times, taboos against nudity began to grow during the Enlightenment, and by the Victorian era, public nakedness was considered obscene.

The Marxist-Leninist revolution in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 20the century condemned modesty and chastity as a holdover of “bourgeois," that is, Christian, morality. Public nude marches were held proclaiming “Down With Shame” in efforts to dispel any lingering prohibitions against nudity. These ideas spread to America around the same time, and groups started to lobby for acceptance of nudity or “naturism” as it was called.

The practice of nudity and rebellion against modesty and chastity was not limited to the Marxists, however. It has long been associated with witchcraft and neo-paganism. In 1945 the founder of Wicca in America established a location for the first Wiccan coven where ritual nudity was practiced.

Overall, until recently, our Puritan heritage of modesty has prevailed for the most part and states passed laws to maintain public decency. For example, as recently as 1957, the state of Arkansas passed a law that made it illegal to “advocate, demonstrate, or promote nudism” in both public spaces and on private property.

Then came the 1960s, and a sea-change in America’s cultural mores occurred, which included changing attitudes toward public nudity. In 1968, John Lennon and Yoko Ono posed nude for the cover of a record album. In 1969, a naked woman adorned the original poster advertising the Woodstock Festival, presaging the behaviors of many during that four-day long event.

Since then public nudity has become associated with protests against “establishment” rules of propriety and against inequality of dress between genders. Nevertheless, these events have still been aberrations from the norm, and the right of states to establish laws to prohibit public nudity was affirmed in 1991 when the Supreme Court weighed in with a landmark decision, Barnes v. Glen Theatre. The Court ruled that the state of Indiana has constitutional authority to ban public nudity, including such “expressive conduct” as nude dancing, since, it argued, the state has a substantial interest in “protecting societal order and morality.” Today’s sexual anarchists, however, are doing everything in their power to undermine our societal order and morality and to prevent the states from taking actions to protect it.

The good news is that as of this writing, 23 states have joined together in a lawsuit claiming that the rule sent out by the Department of Education and Department of Justice, which requires public schools to allow transgender youth to use bathrooms corresponding to their self-identified “gender identity” does not carry the force of law and cannot be enforced.

Let us pray that this suit and others like it will prevail in the courts, and that the principle established in the Barnes v. Glen Theatre ruling, which allows states to determine how they may protect societal order and morality, will be followed.