News: teens don't care about marriage

Column: Conservatives cave on values

Who saw this sort of thing coming: stunning abandonment of values and tradition in a generation of time, and leaders we would have counted on for defending culture, family and society cut and run on the most important issues defining the debate of these things in America?

That was the 1960s and 70s, now the slide is in a decade of time, and the leaders are telling us their cut and run is an advance to a better future.

In these articles, we see over-all teen acceptance of out-of-wedlock pregnancy rising close to the 70-percent mark and a 50-percent drop in teen male faithfulness to waiting - now only 12-percent of males admit to sexual abstinence waiting for marriage.

In churches across America, we see the slide for ourselves: church fellowships that see their youth run as high as 100-percent out-of-wedlock parenting, youth-culture acceptance that favors siring and bearing children as a rite of passage as common as that first job or a license.

Reasons are legion: most center on the popular media, the music, movies and TV. That is largely correct. Another reason is the total lack of religious authority. Do we hear that much?

Religious authority.

How would that even look? Does it summon images of the Taleban or other Islamic tyrants holding public executions of women who are guilty of being raped? We seem surrounded by choice of evils, and the lack of maturity to definitively move in either direction.

This is because we have forgotten our roots, who we are. We are inundated by the cynicism and taunting, the accusations, sarcasm and how our views are twisted and thrown back in our faces in ridicule. In other words, a little persecution has caused us to clam up or find ways to befriend this culture of malice toward morality.

The conclusion in commentary is that we need to bolster our church and family role models. How do we do this if we will not take a definitively courageous stand for an authoritative Judeo-Christian cultural morality and ethical standards.

We should stand for this, and we should demand that society adopt appropriate laws to establish this as our cultural context and to protect it from attack or dissolution in future generations - this in addition to a vigorous drive for renewal and personal faith restoration, the spiritual fruit of repentance.

Our triumph would be apparent by changes in individual lives as well changes in the laws - to prohibit the taking of human life without due process of law, including due process for persons in the womb. In other words, a paramount human life amendment that is the capstone of a civil rights movement for pre-born children.

Our triumph would be apparent by laws prohibiting homosexual acts and a paramount marriage amendment to the constitution defining marriage as the holy matrimonial union of one man and one woman.

Our triumph would be apparent by policy exposing Islamic tyranny for the near-eastern version of totalitarian hegemony and religious supremacy that it is.

NOTE: The authoritative foundation of our Judeo-Christian standards would be distinguished by the fact that these call for the free practice of other religions under a society of civil secular public servants that administer equal justice, the rule of law rather than the tyrannical will to power.

Our triumph would be distinguished by reforming at least one of our major political parties into a solid resource for leaders who do not compromise the integrity of our Judeo-Christian standards, but are pledged to the reformation of our Constitutional Republic upon these standards as necessary for the protection of individual liberties for all through generations to come.

Pledge upon this prayer: "Let the reformation of our Constitutional Republic begin with me."