Judge Robert Bork, who was nominated for the Supreme by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 wrote a book a few years ago entitled: Slouching towards Gomorrah. In that book Bork says, that the forces of evil are so deeply entrenched that any cultural shifts will only be superficial unless they are accompanied by another spiritual awakening.

William Bennett in his Index of Leading Cultural Indicators gives the following statistics for the past 30 years.

• Despite increased funding for law enforcement and stricter laws violent crime has increased 500%. (The mass murder of 32 people at Virginia Tech last week is a good example of this.)

• Sex education programs have proliferated and at the same time illegitimate births have increased over 400%

• The divorce rate has quadrupled during the last 30 years.

• Single parent homes have become the majority, rather than the minority.

• During the last 30 years there has been more than a 200% increase in the number of teenage suicides.

The United States of America

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