From corporations, to politicians, religious leaders, government officials, celebrities to our athletes professional and amateur and to the people that officiate them, America has shown our true colors and they are shades of yellow. The cowardly yellow of a cheating liar.

Cheats like Ken Lay, Jeffery Skilling, George W. Bush, Marion Jones and Barry Bonds. Add on slime balls like Ted Haggard, Richard Roberts and family we have created a nation whose image is tarnished across nearly all disciplines.

The bigger the money, the bigger the lies and the deeper we fall into the depths of moral ineptitude.

As the likes of men like Limbaugh and O'Rielly tout "moral and family values" at risk from the "gay agenda" they easily overlook the real decline in our nation that comes from the failure of "honesty". We have created a culture of deceit for personal gain. From resumes to military records, to tax forms and records to downloading music illegally, we have decayed across the board.

This moral decay is the real issue. Those that lack character to live life open and honestly will be willing participants in the persecution of those that do. It is the "What's in it for me?" attitude that has driven our nation's decline. "Turn the other cheek" means not to accept the barbs of inequality but to look away while holding out a palm for a little "grease". Our entire system of governance is based on you scratch my back I will scratch yours. Policy is bought and sold in Washington and forced on the public as examples of a free society, a democracy in action. How wrong could we be. It is rotten. The liars are leading the cheats and the blind public follows as long as cable TV and tee-shirts are cheap.

So here we are. In total moral collapse. "In God We Trust" is even tarnished as it beams from the back of a dollar cascading into worthlessness, reminding us that we can't trust our government, we can't trust our banks, we can't trust our sports heroes and we can't trust our minister.

Tell us where the real damage is coming from? It certainly is not from the gay couple down the street or the men and women kissing and hugging each other in the privacy of their bedrooms. The damage comes from the liars and cheats that set the example to our children that this is how it is done. This is how people are successful. This how clever people get ahead, by cheating and lying. They believe the only thing wrong is that they weren't clever enough to keep from being caught.

How beautiful is America now?