Honesty, the Best Public Policy

Cheaters may not prosper, but according to a new ABC story, they do graduate.  As technology evolves so has intellectual dishonesty.  According to writer Dominick Tao, the Internet has become a haven for students who are both browsing-and sharing-ways to outsmart their teachers.  Helped by everything from invisible ink pens to YouTube videos, this moral indifference is spreading faster than the products that fuel it.  In a shocking national poll, more than 70 percent of collage students admitted to cheating at least once.  When it comes to personal integrity, these young adults just don’t get it.  Considering the culture they live in, who can blame them?  They’ve been taught by Congress, Wall Street, and Hollywood that the ends justifies the means.

Unfortunately, this collapse of values at college has even wider implications.  Not only are we raising a generation of moral relativists, but we have done so while witnessing what this deep-seated corruption can do to our country.  It levels corporations, tarnishes our political process, and breeds an incredible mistrust between voters and their elected leaders.  Until we get down to the business of instilling a sense of honesty and ethics into society, we are only cheating ourselves.

The United States Must Not Export Death!
February 5, 2008

The House Foreign Affairs Full Committee is scheduled to vote on the PEPFAR/Global AIDS Reauthorization bill this Thursday. The current draft by Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) strips out the pro-abstinence and pro-faithfulness values that have made the program successful, especially in Africa. The new bill would change PEPFAR into a massive $10 billion per year giveaway that will be tilted toward abortion merchants and promoters.

Rep. Lantos and the Democratic Leadership have taken a program started by President Bush to protect future generations in Africa and are trying to change it into one that would instead help to eliminate future generations in Africa. Page eleven of the current draft being circulated reveals their true goal by claiming that pregnancy and sex within marriage are serious threats to women’s health!! The Democrats’ solution is to eliminate the successful “ABC” model of promoting abstinence, being faithful and, only when necessary, using condoms. The Lantos approach instead requires full integration of AIDS with abortion traders and could even require the provision of abortion, all paid for by American taxpayers. Furthermore the draft bill removes the Prostitution Pledge, essentially giving the U.S. government’s stamp of approval for prostitution.

Click on the link below for a full list of the offices of the House members on the Foreign Affairs Committee and please take a moment to call and tell them to protect the values written into the current PEFAR legislation: protection of pro-abstinence and anti-prostitution requirements. Tell them that the successful PEPFAR program should not be hijacked to spread U.S. taxpayer-funded abortion around the world.

The United States Must Not Export Death!