A conservative pundit who was once Ohio’s Secretary of State has linked the recent shooting and knife rampage in Isla Vista, Calif. to moral decay in America.
Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow with the Family Research Council (FRC), spoke about the “the crumbling of the moral foundation of the country” during an interview with fellow FRC colleague Tony Perkins on Perkins’ radio program “Washington Watch” Tuesday. Perkins prompted his guest by saying he thought the killing was indicative of “something fundamentally, deeply flawed in our culture when people can kill and have no remorse.” Blackwell responded by discussing “the attack on natural marriage” and “the teaching of sexual roles and the development of human sexuality.”
“When these fundamental institutions are attacked and destroyed and weakened and abandoned, you get what you are now seeing, and that is a flood of these disturbed people in our society that are causing great, great pain,” Blackwell said. “And as opposed to dealing with the foundation problem, we look for ways of blaming the Second Amendment, or blaming the, blaming knives.”
“At the end of the day, you have just underscored the problem,” he said to Perkins. “This is a convenient way of avoiding talking about what is the root cause.”
When asked about the interview, Blackwell told msnbc that his comments were made in the context of a discussion about the coarsening of our culture “as it pertains to human sexuality, a reverence for life and social decency.”









