[John Scopes]

What is the basis for your morality? What has been the moral basis for the overwhelming majority of Americans since Plymouth rock?

Something will shape your morality. It might be the pompous musings of a group of mental theorists or it may be a professor pumping their thoughts into your head; or it might be the media or hollywood or Oprah Winfrey or the perverted Bill Maher.

Again, I am sorry to hear that you so quickly discarded conservative moral values for the immorality of the 1960s anti-American left. Its a real shame. Their ideas and morals are lethal and they hate everything about the traditional U.S.A. and our view of reality.

The same moral left that you have accepted as 'correct' gave us the drug culture, abortion on demand, the culture of the welfare state, the proliferation of the AIDS plague, the pornography culture and other destructive gifts.

You seem to be under the delusion that morality or a strong moral basis is a minor detail; this characteristic is almost unanimously common to someone who has been brainwashed by the left. They have no true moral basis, therefore a true moral basis must be ruled insignificant. If by chance you are allowed to have a moral basis, it can be any moral basis except the one that most Americans have had since the Pilgrims landed.

Morality and the moral basis our fathers gave us is not something to be taken lightly and then to be discarded for some know-it-all's bum guess.

[gidget7]

Both of you, very good posts!

John, I would go a step further and say, moral basis is what drives our lives. It's what makes unnecessary laws, unnecessary, since our moral values already forbid us from committing those crimes, NOT laws. Those of us with strong moral values wouldn't think of harming another human being, or stealing, or even littering!! While the left wants laws allowing for things that are not illegal, and laws that ban things that are already forbidden by our own moral laws, and we would never think of commuting in the first place.

The point is, all the laws in the world, still will not dictate our moral values, which may be tougher that the law is. That is why you need a nation with strong morals, and you should never try to disassemble them.