Letter to the Editor

Values include moral judgments

To the editor:

Liberal Democrats have a gigantic moral-values deficit and don't even know it. They have an entirely different take on values, and that is why George W. Bush is in the White House for four more years.

To liberal Democrats, family values are about equal pay, minimum wages, gay rights, health care for every American, federal assistance for the poor and homeless and social-welfare issues. Those issues may be important to many Americans, but they are not what conservative Republicans know are moral family values.

Moral family values have nothing to do with the state of our health or wealth. They have everything to do with what liberals disdain the most, and that is for anyone to make moral judgments about right and wrong. Liberal Democrats have swallowed -- hook, line and sinker -- the popular declarations they come out of some academic circles that there are no moral absolutes and no authoritative basis for anyone to make moral judgments.

Liberals are convinced that anyone who makes moral judgments is bound to be a hypocrite, a religious nut, a right-wing extremist.

Conservatives know we are not the only people in America who have moral values. We do know, however, what moral values are and what they are not. Democrats will keep losing elections until they open their eyes to the truth, if that is possible.

RAY EPPS, Jackson, Mo.