Saturday, May 14, 2016

Dark times

At Investors Business Daily Dennis Prager writes,
The traditional family has become nothing more than one of many options open to Americans. For the first time in American history there are more unmarried women than married women. The number of adults age 34 and under who have never been married is nearing 50 percent. In recent years, data showed just 20% of Americans ages 18 to 29 are wedded, compared to nearly 60% in 1960. Additionally, more than 40% of American births are to unmarried women. Among Hispanic women the percent is over 53, and among black women the rate is over 71%.

...And now there’s Clinton and Trump. Nothing more clearly exemplifies the dark time in which we are living than this political version of Sophie’s choice.

I will not end on a happy note because there isn’t one; but neither will I despair.

One doesn’t fight only when one is optimistic. One fights because it is the right thing to do, and because America remains, as Lincoln said, “the last best hope of earth.”
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