The American people had one bright shining moment last summer, when they rose up to stop a bipartisan bill to pour the country down the drain. All our leaders—president, Congress, Wall Street, the media, the academics, the mainline clergy—pushed a blanket amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens. The payoff: cheap labor, cheap votes. They tried to slip it past when they thought no one would be watching, twice, on long holiday weekends. It was a sure thing, a done deal—until an unprecedented public outcry against it buried it.

But that was just patching a single crack when the whole dam’s crumbling. There are thousands of cracks. Today let’s look at two of them.

McDonald’s, the fast food giant, has joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and pledged its whole-hearted support for Organized Sodomy’s agenda. A chunk of all those zillions of dollars Americans spend on burgers, fries, and Egg McMuffins will now be used to fund the deconstruction of America. McDonald’s calls this “being socially responsible.”

And in Mullica, New Jersey, Clearview High School has a new sex education program called PEP, in which teenagers “educate” each other. As is always the case in America’s public schools, the PEP curriculum reads like some of the more lurid passages of My Secret Life. You can see it for yourselves at http://www.purepioneers.org/id24.html . Parents are trying to get this program shut down. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

I picked these because they are just two of many examples that readers have asked me to comment on. They illustrate a rapid breakdown of our culture. They also illustrate the futility of looking to our leaders for the answers.

Some of our leaders are afraid to address the issue. The few who try get smothered under an avalanche of mockery and hate. Many more, in both political parties, never met an anti-American scheme they didn’t like. Whatever erodes our culture, our national sovereignty, our religious faith, or our hard-won liberty, they’re all for it. Whether it’s another weird international treaty to build up the U.N. at America’s expense, another slapdown of the Boy Scouts, another wasteful earmark, or just another hate speech bill, they’re pulling for it.

And a few leaders, a few organizations, just keep plugging away, trying to stop the madness. Some of them seem to accomplish little more than just to keep themselves in business. The rot spreads, and keeps on spreading.

We put our money in banks that sponsor “pride parades,” we buy hamburgers from a corporation pledged to push “gay marriage,” we send our children to public schools to be immersed in anti-Christian, anti-family, anti-American indoctrination. We have three presidential candidates: two are socialists (one of whom is a racist, to boot), and the third sponsored the amnesty for illegal aliens. It’s very hard to avoid the impression that we are consenting to our own destruction.

America can no more tolerate “gay marriage,” “alternative families,” or the new “transgender” movement than it can absorb and assimilate 30 million illegal aliens in a single gulp.

Every one of these cracks in our cultural dam has its source in the humanist delusion that we create ourselves, create our own moral laws as needed, create and re-create the world according to our own desires, even control the global climate by depriving ourselves of SUVs and toilet paper, and be as gods. It is a religious delusion, pure and simple. They can call it being socially responsible, but it’s really being theologically irresponsible.

As Ronald Reagan famously observed, God can do without America, but America cannot do without God. Our rebellion against God’s moral laws can only end in our enslavement to false gods.

Copyright by Lee Duigon

Lee Duigon is a Christian free-lance writer whose work can be seen regularly at www.chalcedon.edu .