In April of this year, the American Legislative Exchange Council published an account of the impact Kinsey's work has had on state criminal law and sex education in America's schools. The report called for state legislatures to "to reverse the misguided assault on American law and way of life." California State Senator Ray Haynes wrote this introduction to the report:

Since World War II Kinsey's fraudulent data informed and directed the American Law Institute's "Model Penal Code" in eliminating and weakening 52 sex laws that once protected marriage. If indeed, as Justice Brandeis once said, "law points the way," the changes to public policies and law naturally followed the Kinsey junk science sexuality model. The ALI's penal law reforms recommended to legislators and lawyers were largely adopted between 1960 - 1980 and permitted Kinsey's abnormal sexual conduct to be taught to American children via sex education. Since then public health costs from sexual disease and dysfunction have skyrocketed; indeed all measures of socio sexual disorder have soared from the 1960s, when protective laws began to be weakened and/or eliminated.

As Kinsey intended, contemplated in the current debate are calls for "discrimination" laws to protect the full range of sexual activities including transvestitism, transgenderism, polygamy, bestiality and the like and, in education, whether to teach our children all "alternate" sexual acts as normal—or to teach Chastity and Abstinence until marriage….

Understanding how junk sex science has deformed our thinking and laws is vital as legislators "point the way." Restoration of reliable and honest standards in our state laws will ensure more healthful and economically sound outcomes for generations to come. Only if enough legislators call attention to Kinsey's questionable findings, can we start to reverse the misguided assault on American law and way of life through investigation, inquiries and repeal of laws and public policies based on "junk" science.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is an organization of state legislators seeking to "advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism and individual liberty among America's state legislators." It is supported by member dues and contributions from business corporations and conservative foundations. Naturally, the liberal People for the American Way has ALEC on its RIGHT WING WATCH list. PAW goes so far as to say that ALEC "was one of President Reagan's strongest supporters throughout the 1980s and through its relationship with Reagan, ALEC gained notoriety." Honest.

Human rights the old-fashioned way

In the Vatican June 4, Pope John Paul II spoke to visiting American bishops about human rights in a way Kinsey would not understand:

Over the last 40 or so years, while political attention to human subjectivity has focused on individual rights, in the public domain there has been a growing reluctance to acknowledge that all men and women receive their essential and common dignity from God and with it the capacity to move towards truth and goodness. Detached from this vision of the fundamental unity and purpose of the whole human family, rights are at times reduced to self-centered demands: the growth of prostitution and pornography in the name of adult choice, the acceptance of abortion in the name of women's rights, the approval of same sex unions in the name of homosexual rights.

Pulling out all the stops for TV decency

Broadcasting & Cable magazine published a big story April 5 about how the TV industry is taking "a tougher look at content" since the Janet Jackson "indecency flap." The headline was: "We Have to Be Perfect." How to achieve perfection? By "blurring a butt here, obscuring a breast there."

How's that for putting it all on the line for the American family?

But there was more. "They [the networks] are instituting video and audio delays in all live programming, and CBS is including delays in sports programs, as well. Network executives have asked some producers to tone down sexual innuendo, which has long been a regular part of such shows as Friends and Will & Grace."

There was even more. The magazine seemed nearly breathless in reporting this biggie: "The Big Four broadcast networks hurriedly teamed with the Ad Council on a campaign to encourage parents to block potentially offensive programming with the V-chip, a device and legislative invention they (especially NBC) once fought."

The V-chip has been a failure. Never mind. It's there to shift responsibility for the garbage from the producers of "potentially offensive" TV to those at home who turn on the set.

Have you seen any good broadcast TV lately? Other than the Yankees?

Recognizing that we have a problem is half the battle

In May, the Gallup organization reported, "Roughly four in five Republicans and Democrats alike rate moral values in the United States as 'only fair' or 'poor'. . . . Overall, just 19% of Americans characterize moral values in the United States as excellent or good, while 80% consider them only fair or poor." This 80% negative opinion on moral standards compares unfavorably with previous Gallup poll results. In its news release, Gallup said it found in 1965 that 33% of adult Americans were "not at all satisfied" with the nation's "moral tone"; in 1991, 64% were "dissatisfied" with the "ethics and moral standards of the American people," and in January 2003, 61% were "dissatisfied" with the "moral and ethical climate" of America.

How quickly things would begin changing for the better if the "dissatisfied" would only translate their growing concern about the decline of moral values into constructive action.

With friends like these, John Kerry doesn't need enemies

On May 21, the Associated Press reported that strip club owners are worried that George Bush might close them down and are urging their patrons to vote for Senator Kerry. On July 1, USA TODAY reported that radio shock jock Howard Stern will also "work like a dog" to urge his listeners to vote for Senator Kerry. For years, Stern has been the darling of New York City area Republican politicians willing to sacrifice any integrity they may have had in order to reach Stern's radio audience. Interestingly, it is FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, a Democrat, who has been the champion of decency in broadcasting. FCC chairman Michael Powell's recent change of heart is thought to be the result of pressure from the White House. But with Powell (a Bush appointee) now leading the FCC's effort to crack down on indecent programming, Stern may be forced to either clean up his radio program or lose his lucrative morning time slot.

Slavers trade up to 800,000 persons annually, more than half for prostitution

In its fourth annual Trafficking in Persons Report on June 10, the U.S. State Department reported that, 140 years after the American Civil War put an end to "the state-sanctioned practice" of slavery in this country, "human slavery has returned as a growing global threat….

"Each year, an estimated 600,000-800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders (some international and non-governmental organizations place the number far higher), and the trade is growing. This figure is in addition to a far larger yet indeterminate number of people trafficked within countries. Victims are forced into prostitution, or to work in quarries and sweatshops, on farms, as domestics, as child soldiers, and in many forms of involuntary servitude. The U.S. Government estimates that over half of all victims trafficked internationally are trafficked for sexual exploitation.…

"… 80 percent of the victims trafficked across international borders are female and 70 percent of those females are trafficked for sexual exploitation. Estimates of people trafficked into the United States ranged from 14,500 to 17,500."

The trafficking report noted that 25 Americans were arrested in 2003 on charges of child sex tourism in foreign countries during the first eight months of "Operation Predator," the American initiative to fight child exploitation, child pornography and child sex tourism.

Southwest porn dealer calls obscenity 'a spiritual symbol'

By the time he was indicted on federal obscenity and tax evasion charges last fall, John K. Coil of Dallas had built "a porn empire… throughout the Southwest over three decades," with 58 properties in seven states, the Austin American-Statesman reported on June 12. One of his ventures was a bogus church called Trinity Christians of America, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operated porn shops in Louisiana for profit, the paper reported. Mr. Coil's absurd misuse of religious concepts included the assertion that he "considers an adult video store on the side of the highway a spiritual symbol of life overcoming death." He has pleaded guilty and is expected to be sentenced in August in Federal district court in Austin. Mr. Coil's wife, daughter and son are awaiting sentencing on tax-related charges.