“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function,” the late C.S. Lewis wrote in “The Abolition of Man.” “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise."

Today’s men without chests are the humanists among us. They have removed the functions of absolute truth and traditional values. They exalt homosexuality, pornography, violence and death. Yet, in the aftermath of prison scandals and an execution in Iraq, these humanists demand the function of some imagined morality, feigning incredulity in their suddenly-discovered outrage. We’ve seen in it in Capitol Hill hearings, in the mainstream media and elsewhere. Humanists work 365/24/7 to  remove the “organs” of virtue, honor, common sense and decency from the public square; incredibly they demand the function of morality from our own leaders, if not those of others outside our boundaries. They are reaping what they have sewed. Retreating from honor and traditional values, the humanists' rebellion has come home to roost.

The sex acts of Iraqi prisons could have taken place at a film session in Northridge, Calif. No one would have known the difference. And whatever happened to the recent axioms "everybody does it," and "people's private lives are their own business"? Oh, that's right, Bill Clinton is no longer Commander-in-Deceit.

What is so surprising about American women in uniform subjecting Iraqi men to hazing and humiliation? American movies and television shows have made a killing on programs featuring women kicking the bejabbers out of men. S&M people are mainstream on "Entertainment Tonight" and will no doubt take up a collection to send black leather and whips to Baghdad.

What’s so surprising about American prison guards requiring Iraqi women to show their bare breasts? Sports Illustrated and Maxim, Playboy and Penthouse have made it passé.

Remove prayer from the military academies, then act surprised when lowlife videos are mixed in with mail from the front. Teach cadets that morality was not a part of the nation’s founding era and then drop your jaw in disgust when prison guards act like dogs in heat.

When senators Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer criticize the Bush Administration and the military for what is, in the views of the left, commonly encouraged behavior by ... the American left ... comes off seriously deficient on the credibility meter. Are we now to believe that Hillary Clinton, Kennedy, Robert "KKK" Byrd and other Democrats want to take us back to the time of the Puritans? Have we entered a time warp in recent days?

The father of executed Nick Berg blames his son’s death on President George Bush and Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld. Wrong, you are, Mr. Berg. While the late younger Berg was said to be an honorable young man – and likely to be martyred by angered Americans – going to a war zone to drum up business is not the wisest move by a civilian. Many a humanist would have been by Berg's side, if possible, so they could have just rapped with the fanatic devils about the glories of death and the perceived "evils" of America.

Truth be known, we might be lucky if things in the U.S. were going as well as the state of affairs in Iraq, where we happen to be winning a war that is still a short one by the standards of war history. While blowhard senators filibuster on the prison scandal, no one is paying any attention to the debauchery of homosexual pride parades in San Francisco and Disney Land or the hatred expressed at the recent abortionists' march. No one has mentioned that today’s GI Janes were raised on diets of “Hidden Dragon/Crouching Tiger,” “Dark Angel” and “Alias,” among other forms of entertainment reducing men to rubble beneath the boots of angry martial-arts babes. Lynndie England will probably do a few months in military prison, then will sell her story for seven figures to TV movie moguls, will likely draw sympathy from Katie Couric and will go on to a lucrative career in Northridge, porn capital of the world. Mr. Berg senior performed well in his "audition" as a hate show host on the liberal Air America radio network.

Civil disobedience in Fallujah? What do you think is going on in the U.S. Senate, Provincetown, Mass., New Paltz, N.Y., San Francisco, New Mexico and Oregon? What do you think is happening in sanctuary cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles and the Big Apple, where illegal aliens have re-written the books on home invasions and mega-gangs?

Christians in Iraq are treated with more respect than their brothers and sisters in America, where they are routinely browbeaten, denigrated and marginalized in the halls of K-12, Stanford and Harvard. Saddam Hussein mostly left Iraqi Christians alone. Cong. Jim McDermott, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the ACLU routinely persecute Christians in America.

Violence portrayed in television, movies, music and video games have fed the undiscerning a steady diet of decadence. The nightly news tells us they are what they eat. Children raised on thousands of hours of killing and destruction grow up to be attention disordered and desensitized to violence.

We went to Iraq to protect ourselves from attacks on our soil, to subdue terrorists and to export democracy. We have left our borders open, subdued a lot of terrorists, and exported pornography and humanism. The abortion industry, not satisfied with taxpayer funding and rivers of profits and American blood, will eventually rush into Iraq and introduce the locals to our culture of death.

In less than six months, voters will decide whether or not to choose an agenda based on the U.S. Constitution, national sovereignty and a culture of life, or an agenda beholden to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. Voters will decide also on the issues of homosexual curriculum in public schools, partial-birth abortion, higher taxes, less freedom, taxpayer-funded taxis at the borders and a culture of death. If the humanists win the day in November, America as we once knew it is done. Hate crimes legislation will reach its final destination – the churches – and the conservative voice of radio and the Internet will be quickly subdued.