[Kerberos]

"If the moral values decline, then so will the value of the leaders"

Yes yes, the old "the worlds going to the devil in a hand basket" argument, which there has always been a certain amount of the people, in every generation, since the beginning of the country making that claim.

So has does one make the determination that the moral value of the country is in decline?

In the state where I live years ago we use to have a law on the books that mandated that one was not allowed to go outside of the boundaries of there home on Sunday morning before noon, unless the were going to church. Eventually the law was repealed and people could go wherever they wanted on Sunday morning.

So does this represent a decline in moral values because people were no longer mandated by law to be setting in church on Sunday morning fearing God, or being a prisoner in there own homes? Or does it represent a rise in moral values because some people made a stand for their rights of freedom and the ability to determine where they wanted to go on Sunday morning?

I'm sure it would depend on who you ask.

[rwjst4]

So does this represent a decline in moral values because
people were no longer mandated by law to be setting in
church on Sunday morning fearing God, or being a prisoner
in there own homes?

Maybe not, but there are numerous other examples which
point to laws encouraging moral decline in this country.
e. g. "No-fault" divorce. What "Kerberos" (CMU
student?)has presented here is an argument called
Reductio ad absurdum...a common strategy used
by the left...he tries to ridicule the whole notion that
there should be any laws regulating morality in this
country by providing an outlandish counterexample.