BarbWire columnist Luke Douglas is joining other conservatives who have expressed outrage that Kira Kazantsev, the recently-crowned Miss America, once worked as an education intern at a Long Island Planned Parenthood clinic.
“The crusader of the largest abortion provider in the nation now the face of America? We shouldn’t be surprised,” Douglas said, before arguing that Planned Parenthood has contributed to the “pernicious deterioration” of America, with increased cases of rape and murder, as “a sexual revolution begun in the name of liberty has brought us to violence and confusion.”
This week’s newly crowned Miss America, 2015 is said to represent everything America believes in. Kira Kazantsev rose through the ranks of the competition: first as Miss New York, then singing “Happy” to win the national crown, then to represent our identity, our values, and our future as Miss America. As the crowds cheered with joy at her achievements, America took heart in knowing that our future is in the able hands of a new generation of leaders.
But this new generation’s story has another side to tell.
Kira Kazantsev used to work for Planned Parenthood. Not just as a clerk or record keeper, but as a representative traveling from one school to another in New York to teach children the values that Planned Parenthood holds dear.
The crusader of the largest abortion provider in the nation now the face of America? We shouldn’t be surprised.
We have said a lot about self-government, freedom and the Constitution. We can go on forever about what Congress and the Courts are doing, but ultimately the battle will not be won or lost at the ballot box. It will be won or lost in the hearts and minds of the next generation. If we are to live in liberty, we must live in self-government and righteousness. And we know that self-government is never more than one generation away from extinction.
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Pernicious deterioration. And here’s what I mean. The word pernicious means to have a harmful effect in a gradual or subtle way. Deterioration means to become progressively worse. For example, study shows that the number of incarcerated criminals in the US since 1940 has increased every single year, and most significantly in the last ten years.
It has slowly become a problem even though we might not notice it because it is gradual or subtle. Virtue has slowly deteriorated and we are now at the point where there is less and less common virtue to deteriorate. Drug use is on the rise. The high school drop-out and expulsion rate is ever increasing. Murder, theft, corruption, abuse of power, and human trafficking are all crimes committed by a culture that has let virtue slip.
Josh McDowell, testifies in his book “Right and Wrong,” that one of the leading sports in Lakewood California, an upper class dignified part of the country is called sex. Points are self tallied [sic] and each teen participator receives one point per intercourse. Boys are commended by their peers for destroying innocent girls. Men and boys are no longer protectors but predators praised for hunting down girls as if they were prey to feed upon.
Just this week, the California Legislature passed its much-anticipated “Yes means yes” bill, requiring state universities to enact policies to protect women from sexual violence. The new policies will require both parties to obtain affirmative consent before engaging in sexual acts. Democratic Senator Kevin de Leon called for the passage of the bill to protect women against the “rape culture” of modern America. A sexual revolution begun in the name of liberty has brought us to violence and confusion.
You see, our culture has deteriorated to the point where the young lady not only has to be scared of her commute to and from school, but also her own home. We no longer possess a common virtue. Pernicious deterioration has reached its height. It has come to the last piece of honor left to take away from.
