Posted by
Deadpan on Monday, March 31, 2008 6:13:03 PM
Star Parker maintains that the real "transcendent threat" of our time is not Islamist terrorism, but the moral decline in our own society. She points to the bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and the huge numbers of births to unwed mothers, the spread of STDs, widespread abortions, etc.
Half our country today is ready to vote for a presidential candidate, be it a white woman or a black man, who favors promiscuous use of government power to pretend to solve every domestic challenge we have.
Both these candidates want to nationalize health care, raise taxes to deal with our Social Security and Medicare crises, and onerously regulate the mortgage industry. Both condemned the Supreme Court's decision banning partial birth abortion. Both reject the only hope we have for addressing our education problems: school choice.
I appreciate your concern for how we are treating the 600 or so detainees we are holding in Guantanamo.
But have you thought about the 2.3 million of our own citizens -- 1 percent of our adult population -- in prison? Ten percent of black men between 20 and 34 are in prison or jail.
Read the whole thing.
Meanwhile Barack
Obama reinforces her point: <blockquote>“Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” Obama said.
“I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they
make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want
them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn’t make sense to not
give them information.”</blockquote>Babies are a punishment? Remember the outrage when some Evangelicals said they thought the AIDS epidemic was God's punishment for immorality? Where's the outrage when Obama calls STDs and babies "punishment?"
Then
read this on the decline of marriage in formerly Great Britain. Are we far behind?