Skipping Towards Gomorrah

The book is nothing but a praise of immorality.

Moral standards have fallen in our nation, in direct contrast to what our founders envisioned. America was not founded as a libertine or libertarian society. The founders who wrote the Constitution also wrote laws against Blasphemy, Pornography, Fornication, Adultery, Sodomy, and a host of other vices.

Early Court cases reflected this moral standard.

In The Commonwealth v Sharpless, 2 Serg & R. 91 (Sup. Ct. Penn. 1815). The court ruled:

This court is ... invested with power to punish not only open violations of decency and morality, but also whatever secretly tends to undermine the principles of society. . .. Whatever tends to the destruction of morality, in general, may be punished criminally. Crimes are public offenses, not because they are perpetrated publicly, but because their effect is to injure the public. Burglary, though done in secret, is a public offense; and secretly destroying fences is indictable. Hence, it follows, that an offense may be punishable, if in its nature and by its example, it tends to the corruption of morals; although it be not committed in public.

Although every immoral act, such as lying, etc., is not indict able, yet where the offense charged is destructive of morality in general ... it is punishable at common law. The destruction of morality renders the power of the government invalid. . . . The corruption of the public mind, in general must necessarily be attended with the most injurious consequences.. . . No man is permitted to corrupt the morals of the people; secret poison cannot be thus disseminated.

We are in the midst of a culture war in which liberal and libertarian hedonists are attacking every moral standard that Americans need to hold dear. What is needed today is the same awareness that finally hit the conservative men of America in the early 1770s. Loyal to their king, they had rejected the counsel of Sam Adams to rebel against him and fight. Finally, it dawned on these conservatives that they had to become radicals; they had to overthrow the king's rule to keep what they had. And they found in George Washington a conservative leader with the perseverance to take us to victory over an enemy superior in every way but courage and character.