REBUTTAL TO JOCELYN ELDERS

It is not our business to take stands on political issues as long as politicians stay out of moral issues. However our Surgeon General has seen fit to take some moral stands which should not go unopposed.

On January 21, 1994, Mrs. Elders sermonized from the pulpit of a Methodist church in Austin, Texas as part of her tour there to preside over the opening of a Planned Parenthood franchise (interpretation: abortion clinic). Her statement included the following: "It is time for ministers to stop moralizing from the pulpit and get out here and help me save the children."

Clearly Mrs. Elders believes that the problem with our children and the whole society is too much moralizing. This follows from the fact that morals would defeat a major part of her agenda.

Did too much morality cause the problems of drug abuse, gun violence, teen pregnancy, divorce, AIDS, etc. ... ? How can these problems be solved if we do not instill morality into our children?

Perhaps each of us could get out there and help her save the children. How does she propose to do this? Her major program for AIDS prevention is to expand sex education to include children from kindergarten on up. She is pushing for health textbooks that include graphic references to homosexuality.

A second prong of her attack upon AIDS is to offer free condoms to all school children. This encouragement of immorality will only compound the AIDS epidemic with a total breakdown in our sense of virtue. According to Elders, everything is fine as long as you just use a condom.

Mrs. Elders' has stated that she hopes that soon "every child will be a planned and wanted child," but her solution to the unwanted child problem is abortion. When confronted with abortion protesters about her "saving the children," her response was that the protesters should "get over their love affair with the fetus!"

Is it any wonder that she wants us to lay off the morality?

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" (Isaiah 5: 20-21)

And woe unto us if we allow this foolishness to continue!

[Adapted from an article by Jeff S. Smith, Guardian of Truth, March 17, 1994.]