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America needs a course correction

Amen Brother!!!!!!!!!

I find it hard to believe that there are people that are actually shocked and surprised by Harry Reid's comments. He is an American politician, the most dispicable group of people on Earth. They are always liars and hypocrites, regardless of the state they represent or the political party they belong to. There are reasons that their approval ratings are at an all time low and statements like this by Senator Reid are a prime example of only 1. This was a ploy to get attention...Harry does not care about these children, only about himself, just like the rest of his ilk in Congress including our own beloved Hatch, Bennett, Cannon, Bishop and Matheson.

Really? What happened in the prisoner of religion camp in texas is common in vegas? But, vegas is full of mormons, isn't it?
Get real, buddy.

This entire article was pompous tripe. The letter writer thinks we should ignore the arranged marriages of minors to aged perverts because Vegas has strip joints? And proves it with C.S. Lewis quotes? To paraphrase Michelle Obama, for the first time I am proud of Texas.

Nonsense, the country is on the right course. I will vote to stay the course.

This letter swings wildly. Also the effort at moral realativy and therefore an excuse to do nothing until you decide which offenses are worse and that is always a matter of opinion. Two wrongs do not make a right or an excuse to do nothing. The laws of Nevada allow the perversity. Don't go there, don't live there if it is offensive to you. The laws of Texas are being used to rid the state of an institutionalized evil. Don't go there and don't live there if you expect to abandon your little boys and to marry and exploit little girls raised in compounds away from the eyes of the world. It would be great to rid the country of all the perversity, but we will just have to do it within the law and hope someday that the various states will write their laws to have a higher level of refinement when they obtain the will to make things different. As for me and my family, we have tried to find wholesome places to live.

This piece sounds like it was written by the ghost of Cotton Mather. A ghost who hasn't come up with any new ideas in the past 250 years. Of course, Rev. Mather (like his modern manifestation Mr. Jenkins) was just utilizing the intellectual format of revivalists throughout the ages. Their message always get more attention when economics get a little tough.

It's not that calls to "virtue" are all bad. We need to be reminded from time to time that freedom of expression often yields the unitended side-effect of promiscuity. But Mr. Jenkins offers no concrete suggestions for improvement, just a general chastisement against the people for immorality. And I'd be willing to bet that if pressed for details about how to improve society, Mr. Jenkins would advocate a lot of laws telling people what they weren't allowed to do.

The country is most definitely in need of a change of course.
We are in the early stages of The Greater Depression and something must be done and done soon.

Yes, this nation's real problem is its selective outrage . . . and its selective sympathy . . . and its selective awareness about history and the world (like the fact that polygamy has been accepted as a norm in the Bible and around the world until the very recent Victorian Era).

Laugh at the Muslims and the Africans and the Latinos if you dare, but the modern artificial romantic sensitivies of White Euro-American culture are leaving the door open to a demographic victory by the traditional cultures who still value childbearing by the young and polygamous.

Don't look now, but the affluent technology of modern Christians and Jews is no match for the power of young Muslim wombs. There is no evidence that a false, feminized, Disney-oriented view of romance can sustain a culture for more than a generation or two. Mother Nature has no mercy . . .

AGREE totally!!! Thanks for this!