Uphold Moral Code for Better U.S.

Years ago I had a conversation with a brilliant man who once had headed the Strategic Air Command (those are the folks who actually would fight a nuclear war).

I asked him what he thought about the future of the country, and the general said bluntly, "I wouldn't give you two cents for it."

He was prophetic. I wouldn't give you two cents for the future of any country that has turned morality upside down so that legitimate businesses now feel called upon to punish the Boy Scouts for the Scouts' high moral standards. I'm sorry to say that my own newspaper is among them.

The problem with adopting the position, which states that the only sin is disagreeing with the proposition that there is no sin, is that it leaches into every aspect of a nation's existence.

Everything people do or don't do, say or don't say, is a result of their moral code. Whether a worker is conscientious or sloppy is a moral decision on the part of the worker. Whether a soldier obeys his oath is a moral decision. Whether people take care of their families or abuse them is a moral decision.

In America's flight from morality, people have turned to a self-appointed secular priesthood of social workers, psychologists and propagandists for special-interest groups to tell them what is right or wrong. the common theme of the secular priesthood is that individuals aren't responsible for their actions.

You would think that in America there were no people who abuse children, that there was only a "problem of child abuse." No, there are people who make the decision to abuse children and the answer should be that when such people are identified the government kills them or locks them up for life. No one ever should be given a second chance to abuse another child.

But just watch. There is already in preparation a new campaign by some psychologists to convince Americans that "intergenerational sexual relationships" can have a positive effect on the children. there long has been an organization, the North American Man/Boy Love Association, that lobbies for lowering the age of consent. You see, once you abandon morality, everything becomes negotiable and arguable. And, after all, the politically correct people say, one opinion is as good as another, and there is not truth.

When people no longer believe that their traditional moral code provides a valid set of criteria, then they're at the mercy of the public-relations campaigns, the peddlers of junk science and the ideologues.

No nation or empire can survive a corrupt culture, because, as I stated, the corruption leaches into every aspect of society from business to government, from the military to the educational establishment and even the religious institutions. Pretty soon, none of the elements of a nation or empire works. Then it falls.

The best way to keep your sanity during the long process of decline and fall is the reevaluate your own core beliefs and then, when you're satisfied with them, close the subject. You say that these are my beliefs and that they are not debatable or subject to compromise and that I don't give a flying flip who doesn't like it.

Let the others drive themselves nuts trying to figure out what is expedient on a case-by-case basis under constantly changing circumstances.

A lot of Americans have been duped into the idea that discriminating against anything and anybody is dreadful, mortal sin. Actually, sane people do discriminate against evil, the unhealthy, the dangerous, the brutal, the violent, the unjust and the ugly. So, hang tough, folks, and watch out for falling pieces of a once-great society.