[TexasCajun]

That would be those without any moral compass !!

...who all belong to the Democrat Party!

[fuzzylogic]

....my theory; as soon as we had antibiotics we started to quickly change our moral behavior. Things that were previously a death sentence now became a quickly treatable problem.

Then came the ‘60s, then their children. Now it’s all made worse with these people running the media and forcing horrible messages onto our current children.

At some point, there will be “an event” that will make us all realize the path we’ve been on.

[Linda Frances]

Ravi Zachariah spoke of what happens to a nation when people trust government over God for their needs. He retold this story.

During those final days of the collapsing Marxist experiment in the Soviet Union, Soviet novelist Chingiz Aitmatov retold the following story, which has been paraphrased here.

On one occasion, so it was narrated, Stalin called for a live chicken and proceeded to use it to make an unforgettable point before some of his henchmen. Forcefully clutching the chicken in one hand, with the other he began to systematically pluck out its feathers. As the chicken struggled in vain to escape, he continued with the painful denuding until the bird was completely stripped. “Now you watch,” Stalin said as he placed the chicken on the floor and walked away with some bread crumbs in his hand. Incredibly, the fear-crazed chicken hobbled toward him and clung to the legs of his trousers. Stalin threw a handful of grain to the bird, and it began to follow him around the room, he turned to his dumbfounded colleagues and said quietly, “This is the way to rule the people. Did you see how that chicken followed me for food, even though I had caused it such torture? People are like that chicken. If you inflict inordinate pain on them they will follow you for food the rest of their lives.”

Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God, (Word Publ., Dallas: 1994), pp. 26-27

[Responsibility2nd]

Who's Responsible for the Moral Decline?

_________________________________________

Lots of good and valid answers in the article and among the replies.

Me? I blame Lyndon Baines Johnson. The WORST American president ever.

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[cincinnati65]

"...but today, where black and white has faded into varying shades of gray,..."

And with that, you confirm that YOU are part of the problem.

[Gritty]

Back in the early 1960's the Supreme Court kicked God out of the Public Square and out of the public schools.

We left God, so He left us as a nation and has allowed us to stew in our own foul juices...

[bgill]

libs

[tuffydoodle]

Good article.

[Conservative Gato]

Bookmark for later.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[overdog2]

(the move to the left was apparent when America abandoned Anita Bryant to the wolves of homosexual advocacy)

From... conservapedia.com

"Anita Bryant (b. 1940) was an extremely successful singer and commercial endorser who became an early opponent of homosexuality. As a result, the entertainment and corporate world ostracized her.

A devout Christian born and raised in Oklahoma, Bryant won the prestigious talent competition of Arthur Godfrey at age 16, was runner-up in the Miss America competition at age 19, and next recorded three smash popular hit songs, of which a couple were imitated later by famous groups such as the Beatles. In the late 1960s and 1970s Anita Bryant became one of the most successful endorsers of goods, most famously Florida orange juice. She was was an extremely popular celebrity in her time, and had such broad appeal that she performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl III in 1969 and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at the burial of former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1973.

Living in South Florida, Bryant saw Florida's Dade County (now Miami-Dade County) pass an ordinance in 1977 granting anti-discrimination rights to homosexuals.[Citation Needed] Within four weeks, Bryant, along with supporters from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami and the Florida Conservative Union, had collected 64,000 signatures, many more than the 10,000 needed to put the issue on the ballot. [1] The ordinance was successfully repealed in a referendum that passed in a landslide vote of 69% to 31%. She said her main concern was the recruitment of children into the homosexual lifestyle, and she founded a group called Save Our Children for that purpose. It was not until 1998 that Miami-Dade County reinstated the ordinance by a narrow 7-6 vote.

Bryant also successfully led a campaign for the Florida legislature to prohibit homosexuals from adopting children. Over two decades later, in 2004, that law was upheld by the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.[2]

Homosexual advocates vilified Bryant for her stance, and continue to insult her to this day. They organized a boycott of her corporate sponsors and they obtained denunciations of Bryant by other entertainers. Four self-proclaimed homosexuals slapped Bryant with a pie in her face during a speaking event in Des Moines, Iowa.[3] Bryant responded immediately by saying a prayer for her assailants. Police authorities refused to prosecute for the assault.

The efforts of the homosexual activists succeeded in destroying Bryant's career. The corporations refused to continue to hire her; the music industry excluded her. Subsequent attempts by Bryant to further her entertainment career in small towns were unsuccessful, and liberal newspapers hound her about that also.[4]

Homosexuals continue to attempt to discredit Anita Bryant as part of their current effort to repeal the Florida law against adoption by homosexual couples. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that on March 25, 2007 a "meeting, organized by local, state and national gay advocacy groups, was held to discuss a proposal in Tallahassee to repeal Florida's 30-year-old ban on gay adoption. Organizers said the ban is a remnant of former beauty queen and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant's anti-gay crusade of the 1970s."[5]

It should be noted that Anita Bryant was largely correct in that she believed homosexuals wanted to recruit children into their ways, for example noted gay rights activist Harry Hay protested the exclusion of groups like NAMBLA in the 1990s (that had previously been in the gay mainstream) and Hay refused to participate in the official 1994 parade in New York City commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots because of its 'exclusionary policies'. Instead he joined an alternate parade called "The Spirit of Stonewall""

[Pollster1]

I don’t blame the communists and socialists who wanted to destroy America and are succeeding. I blame the superficially decent people who have ceded control of our language, our culture, and our government to those who want America fundamentally transformed. Our country’s only hope is for good, productive people to go on the offensive, take active control of the community narrative, challenge each attempt to control our language in a modern version of Orwell’s New-speak, and fight every possible battle avoid losing more ground and to regain lost ground.

Our mistake was a live-and-let-live philosophy, in which we ran our own lives and figured the thugs and big government liberals would live their own lives. That was never their goal — they want control, not freedom. The solution is to use our superior ability and energy to take back our country from people who are not nearly as capable as us. The challenge will be to keep our focus. They are willing to wait for us to return to productive work before they make another grab for absolute power. We have to stay alert 100% of the time. Forever.

[wastoute]

Progressivism doesn’t win anywhere or anyway. Without integrity nothing works. Nothing. We, as in We the People, are being spun every which way worse than a dang tornado in these last months of the Klown’s regime. We have the same choice all have had since Paul. Trust Him or trust yourself. We are gonna be sifted FReind and it is gonna take all the popcorn we can muster.

[Impy]

http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/index.html

You hear about libtard Catholic Priests a lot but according to that link, based on “Campaign contribution data from the FEC.” the large majority support Republicans. Contrast the Episcopal Priests, who are heavily rat.

[Rudder]

Me.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Who's Responsible for the Moral Decline?

Who put the "bomp" in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp,
Who put the "ram" in the ram-a-lam-a ding dong?