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Show V. t SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Community WEDNESDAY JULY 29, 1998 An American Patriots Bookshelf Wo. 1 1 Em You Know Teach What They Only By Howard L. Roberts Jr. M.D. car for the sheer fun of it. Quoted from May 1998 issue June 1997: A New Jersey of Family News From Dr. teenager gave birth to her baby in a bathroom stall at her high James Dobson The sounds of gunshots in a school prom. She dropped the small Arkansas town continue baby in the trash, then returned to ring like a bell-- a bell that tolls to the dance floor, where she for four little girls and a dedi- asked the band to play her facated teacher who put herself in vorite song, The Unforgiven. mortal danger to shield a fifth old October 1997: A child from a hail of bullets, un- boy in Peal, Mississippi, allegleashed, God help us, by a 13- -. edly slayed his mother, then went to school and shot nine year old boy and his 1 1 year-ol- d pal. students, killing two, including We should have his former girlfriend. 16-ye- ar known. ..should have anticipated.. .that children who have watched thousands of murders on prime-tim- e television, and been taught that there are no moral absolutes might come to see little harm in gunning down their classmates. Jonesboro marks a point of crisis, but one that is hardly new or unique. What happened in this small town in Arkansas symbolizes America in moral free fall. America on a rapidly descending spiral. America withAmerica thai has out God-aher founding fawhat forgotten thers meant when they warned that only a virtuous people could remain free. If that statement is accurate, and history has consistently validated it, then we are living in the twilight of our liberty. September 1995: A family made a wrong turn down a street in Los Angeles and was subjected to a hail of gunfire that killed their little girl. Gang members poured bullets into the n December 1997: A 14-ye- ar old boy in Stamps, Arkansas, allegedly fired sniper rounds outside his school, woundingtwo students. March 1998: In Dallas, Texas, four teenagers claiming to be d vampires went on a drug-craze- spree, vandalizing dozens of cars g raand homes, cial slurs and burning down the office and fellowship hall of Bethany Lutheran Church. April 1998: InYonkr s,New old girl, upset York, a that her teacher called her parents about her poor academic performance, attacked the pregnant instructor with a hammer. The teacher suffered multiple skull fractures. This chronicle of children who have committed horrible crimes is symptomatic of a culture in chaos. John Hazelwood, whose old son Brandon attends the Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, said it best: This is not the kids problem, its the way were raising spray-paintin- 15-ye- 14-ye- ar ar them today. They only know what you teach 'em. Where did we go wrong? At least some ofthe answers can be found in the radical notions that have emerged in the last 30 years. Judges, with the acquiescence of our legislators, have made it illegal for our schools to post the Ten Commandments. It is becoming increasingly diffi-cult-a- dangerous-fo- r nd students to pray together on school campuses; meanwhile, its easier for a man or woman to obtain a divorce than to escape from an automobile lease agreement. The President of the United States embraces the radical homosexual movement which opposes the legal basis of marriage as a lifelong commitment between one man and one woman. States are prohibited from protecting innocent children, in the process of beingborn, from those who would puncture their skulls and suck out their brains. Those who oppose this infanticide are called extremists by our political leaders. Federal authorities decline to prosecute hard-cor- e pornographers. The government spends billions to promote safe sex ideology in our schools, and officials hand out condoms and pills to kids who assume theyre expected to use them. Laws Protecting children from indecent material on the Internet are struck down by justices to protect the right of adults to market pornography. Video poker machines dot the landscape of a nation that was built on principles of thrift and deferred gratification. The entertainment industry glorifies violence and sexual exploitation, while pop music pays tribute to the killing of police and the raping of women. And the list goes on. How much carnage must we witness at our feet before we will raise our eyes to Heaven? The American people know we are in moral crisis. According to a poll conducted by Luntz Research, 80 percent believe immorality is our greatest problem as a nation. But our leaders dont seem to comprehend what is happening. Its time we all of pulled together-American- s reliand every political party gious faith-t- o recover a sense of what God wants us to do for our nation. Lets begin by giving priority to our children. In days gone by, the culture acted to shield them from harmful images and exploitation. Now its open season for even the youngest among us. Lets put the welfare of cur boys and girls ahead of our own convenience and teach them the difference between right and wrong. They need to hear that God is the author of their rights and liberties. Lets teach them that He loves them and holds them to a high level of moral accountability. Lets Lets demand that the land. entertainment moguls stop producing moral pollutants. Lets recapture from the courts that system of that tra- self-rul-e ditionally allowed Americans to debate their deepest differences openly and reach workable solutions together. Radical individualism is destroyingus! The creed that proclaims, if it feels good do it!, has filled too many hospitals with drug overdosed teenagers, too many prison cells with fatherless youth, too many caskets with slain young people and caused too many tears for bewildered parents. Lets vow together today to set for our children the highest standards of ethics and morality and to protect them, as much as possible, from evil and death. America cant be perfect, but it can be better-muc- h better. To surrender to evil is to yield to the despair that leads to death. We must be bold enough to draw a line in the sand. We may have to endure some harassment and lawsuits for it, but as the good people of Jonesboro know that isnt the name-callin- g, worst thing that can Hearing Exams at do everything in our power to reverse the blight of violence and lust that has become so pervasive across this -- New Hospital Take advantage of the opportunity to have your hearing checked. Jeffrey Manwaring, a clinical MAKE SURE THE VISITOR TO KANAB audiologist, will be providing free hearing assessments at the new Kane County Hospital. KNOWS ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS.... With a brochure in the KIOSK in front of Glaziers Food Town? 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