One in four children conceived in America is aborted. Of the rest, almost one-third are born out of wedlock. Slightly more than 20 percent of teen-agers are current drug users. As many as one in three high-school graduates are functionally illiterate. Immorality is rampant.
Human life is devalued.
There is a pervasive sickness in our culture, epitomized by a soul-dead entertainment industry. We are on a collision course with the People s Republic of China. The most populous nation on earth, with one of the world s fastest-growing economies, China is acting like Germany in the 1930s. We face this threat with a hollow, demoralized military. If articulated, the above would make calls to sacrifice more than credible.