Destroying Innocence Is a Sin, Not a Virtue

With Steamboat Willie (the original Mickey Mouse cartoon) now in the public domain, all the immature and dirty-minded adults are out in full force, gleefully hurling every bit of filthy, perverted, and morbid humor they could think of at this icon of American childhood. I could not help but think of the Bible verse (Lk. 17:1-2), “It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come. It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.”