[thoughtomator]

The 800 pound gorilla in the middle of the room that no one is talking about is [b]divorce[/b]. There is nothing in our nation today that more destroys the fabric of society than the ease of divorce and the very strong incentives provided to women to divorce their husbands.

If homosexuality, adultery, and polygamy are wrong on the grounds that they are antithetical to healthy families, then divorce is certainly not only among them, but many orders of magnitude greater in its destructive effect. Only perhaps the crimes of abortion can match the destruction wrought by the ease of divorce.

But of course a lot of divorced people vote, and they don't want to hear about the consequences.

[Icey]

Agreed. I find divorce to be absolutely abhorrent and the main contributor to the destruction of the American family. Not just the American family actually, but the nucleus as a whole around the world in supposedly "developed" countries. We may be rich in terms of economic wealth, but we're morally bankrupt.

That being said, it is not the federal government's job to legislate morality except in an abstract sense. Leave that to local governments, or to individuals themselves. You can't blame government at any level for the demise of our values. You can only blame yourself. Why? Because the Left has repeatedly, and successfully, attacked the core of our morality and we refused to make the effort to back our beliefs on Constitutional grounds. Too often we made it about principle and religion instead of winning the fight on their turf, which we could have.

Now the next generation, my generation, will be forced to fight a battle in which we'll have to conquer a fortress of immorality and bloated government. But we'll do our damnest I assure you. The SSS has recognized me as a man, as of April 13, so I guess the fight is officially in my hands.