Moral standards are key to life

Every individual must have some level of morality to live a happy and successful life.

Whether your standards of morality stem from religion or from the way you were raised, every person has a guiding set of values that determine how you judge right from wrong.

These morals or values are not just the foundation of your life but the foundation of our society as a whole. Collaborating how we are as individuals judge morality makes up how we as a community or state judge morality. These standards determine our structure.

The standards we hold as a community, town, city or state on many levels determines our success as a nation. Today, these standards and our nation's success seem to be in jeopardy by secular ideals and a liberal code of tolerance.

Secular progressives in our society see judgment as a negative thing only causing pain and suffering. These same liberals see standards based in morality as intolerant and uncaring. They see the institutions and traditions that hold these standards as nothing more than religious bigotry. They search for hypocrisy, looking for any one who falls short of the standard to illustrate morality as an impossible pursuit. They're fixated on unjust results.

The truth is their vision for the future of our nation is profoundly dangerous to the long-term success of our country and incredibly damaging to the happiness of most Americans.

Freedom rests on personal responsibility. The only way to maintain personal responsibility is by having standards of morality. A society without standards of morality is a society without accountability. We need individuals either taking responsibility for their actions or being held accountable for their decisions. To do that we as a society have to pass judgment and have standards. Tolerance is just a way of avoiding personal responsibility.

These principles and standards make up our national identity. They are ingrained in the fabric of who we are as a civilization. If we want to maintain our freedom and secure American virtue, we must stop this secular progressive movement in America before it's too late.

Christian Reynolds

Geneva