Letter: An emphasis on morality is not a return to the past

Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 | 8:54 a.m.

This letter is in response to the column by the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, published Nov. 9 on the Sun's Opinion Page. It was headlined, "Bush returning to darker place in time."

How is it that whenever Americans seek to revert to biblical principles and just morality, they are accused of wanting to return to the dark ages or primitivism?

Dowd wondered why we have had such a moral decline in America. For starters, the Democrats have pretty much reigned over politics the past 50 years.

First it was prayer out of the schools in 1962, followed by allowing contraceptives to become the subject of classroom discussions.

Then came the cry: "A woman's choice!" followed in 1973 by the legal right to murder unborn children. With this came an increasing depreciation of human life.

And now homosexual marriages are being conducted in several states.

Thank you, liberal Democrats, for the past 50 years of keeping faith out of politics!

And as for embryonic stem cell research: Conservatives and Christians do not fear scientific progress. Let me ask you: What if we found a procedure to cure AIDS, but it could only be made possible if 40 million people were murdered as their tissue was harvested? Answer this question and you find the difference between the biblical convictions that George Bush seems to have and the liberal agenda.

TIMOTHY R. CARROLL