We are living in a nation at war. 170,000 U.S. troops are currently deployed in Southwest Asia, and on Nov. 7 the army raided and seized a hospital in Fallujah.

The Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has thyroid cancer and will most likely soon retire, and President Bush has vowed to appoint new Justices who will rule in accordance with conservative morality.

In the next four years, the Supreme Court might decide whether or not abortion will stay legal in this country. They will almost definitely decide that it shall not.

The Supreme Court will also be faced with issues concerning the imprisonment of U.S. “enemies” at Guantanamo Bay and the constitutionality of the inclusion of the “under God” clause in the pledge of allegiance.

Congress has been introduced to the idea of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and in this presidential term they might vote on whether or not it will pass—on whether or not it will change the content and, arguably, the intent of the highest law in America.

America is in moral crisis, and, in the next four years, decisions will be made which will push the moral compass of the government one way or another.

Most likely, it will be pushed to the right.

Conservative groups have injected a dangerous emphasis on illogical morality into the American political system, and, sadly, it is being accepted with open arms.

80 percent of voters who decided on who to support for president based on morals voted for Bush. They voted for abortion to be made illegal, gay marriage to be banned, and the war on Iraq, which has been paid for with the lives of over 11,000 people, to continue.

Although most scientists believe that a great deal of development goes on in the very first stages of life and in the womb, the “morality vote” decided that pregnant drug addicts and adolescents should be forced to have their babies regardless of whether or not they feel it would be beneficial for them or their child.

Although the Bible preaches forgiveness and love, the Christian right decided that homosexuals should not be allowed to marry, adopt children, or work as teachers.

Those who claim to be the moral sector of society have unquestionably supported a president that entered a war that, as of now, has left 10,000 civilian casualties in a nation that is 50% children.

The “moral” shift to the right is a dangerous rejection of logical morality, a morality which places higher importance on the lives of Iraqi civilians than on the capture of American enemies—that believes in the protection of homosexuals’ rights over the protection of ill-founded Christian prejudice flaunted as “family values.”

President Bush has been given four more years in an election that most analysts say was decided ultimately by religious fundamentalists.

He has been given four more years to vilify those who do not support him, to eliminate the welfare system, to take jobs away from the poor.

Religious zealots have exploited belief in God and His or Her supposed moral values to give George Bush four more years to degrade the logical morality of America.