Washington D.C., Mar 31, 2008 / 23:17 pm
Social commentator Star Parker has written an open letter to John McCain asking him to promote traditional values to combat crime and family breakdown.
Parker said that though she was deeply concerned about the threats from terrorism and radical Islam, she did not agree with the senator that either constituted a “transcendent threat.”
Instead, she suggested that the breakdown of the American family was a true “transcendent threat,” since almost 40 percent of children are now born out of wedlock. She suggested that the prospective bankruptcy of Social Security and Medicare, which face a $50 trillion deficit, also constituted a “transcendent threat.”
Parker said she appreciated McCain’s concern for the Guantanamo detainees, but asked that he consider the 2.3 million people imprisoned in the United States. She said that ten percent of black men between 20 and 34 were in prison or jail.
A vigorous advocacy of social conservatism, Parker proposed, would help ameliorate the conditions of the poor.