Friday, May 11, 2007

From the Founding Fathers

Via the Patriot Post comes this quote from John Adams:

"The foundation of national morality must be laid in private
families. . . . How is it possible that Children can have any
just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if,
from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in
habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as
constant Infidelity to their Mothers?"

In a day and age when we are expected to tolerate every immorality under the sun, it's always interesting to read what the founders of this country thought about the subject.