Try this.

A recent CBS/New York Times poll asked this profound question: “There's been a lot of discussion about the way morals and sex are changing in this country. What is your view on this? Do you think it is wrong for a man and woman to have sexual relations before marriage, or not?"

Reflecting the decade's old teaching of the Church of UnHolywood, only 32 percent of Americans thought there was anything at all wrong with it compared to 37 percent in July of 1979.

Surprise. Surprise.

And another revelation.

According to a Gallup poll conducted May 7-11 in 2008, 55 percent of our countrymen and women felt that it was perfectly okay to have a baby out of marriage up by four percentage points since the same question was asked in 2003.

But those infants who are not aborted face a grim future.

"In mother-only families, children tend to experience short-and long-term economic and psychological disadvantages; higher absentee rates at school, lower levels of education, and higher dropout rates (with boys more negatively affected than girls); and more delinquent activity, including alcohol and drug addiction. Adolescents, on the other hand, are more negatively affected by parental discord prior to divorce than by living in single-parent families and actually gain in responsibility as a result of altered family routines (Demo and Acock 1991). Children in single-mother homes are also more likely to experience health-related problems as a result of the decline in their living standard, including the lack of health insurance (Mauldin 1990). Later, as children from single-parent families become adults, they are more likely to marry early, have children early, and divorce. Girls are at greater risk of becoming single mothers as a result of nonmarital childbearing or divorce (McLanahan and Booth 1989)..." (family.jrank.org/pages/1577/Single-Parent-Families-Effects-on-Children.html)

Don't forget our sports "idols."

According to Sports Illustrated, Larry Johnson of the Knicks is supporting five children by four women, including two he has with his wife, and Shawn Kemp of the Cavaliers, who is not married, has fathered seven children. Other NBA players who have been the subject of paternity-related lawsuits include Patrick Ewing, Juwan Howard, Scottie Pippen, Jason Kidd, Stephon Marbury, Hakeem Olajuwon and Gary Payton, as well as Larry Bird, who is now the coach of the Pacers, and current NBC game analyst Isiah Thomas." CNN/SI Paul Crane, April 29, 1998.

And guess what? In France — good old France — over half of ALL births are born to unmarried women. Marriage is so old fashioned.

Back in the colonies, homosexual relationships, which are gradually being promoted in the entertainment world of movies and TV, have reached the point where Americans are evenly split as to their acceptability. This was an increase of four percentage points since the same question was asked in 2006.

At the same time, a Gallup poll conducted in December of last year found that Americans are beginning to feel that organized religion has less and less influence on Americans. “At the present time, do you think religion as a whole is increasing its influence on American life or losing its influence?" Two out of every three responded that organized religion is losing its influence.

In a related question, only 53 percent of respondents believed that religion contains all or some of the answers to the problems facing us all, down from 59 percent.

In a further erosion of so-called "traditional values," Gallup polls have shown a gradual increase in Americans’ acceptance of cloning animals (33 percent), abortion (40 percent), doctor assisted suicide (51 percent), a decline in the acceptance for medical testing on animals (56 percent), and divorce (70 percent).

And the clincher?

Fifty-seven percent of Americans think the government should promote "traditional values" in our society.

Either we're all schizophrenic or our "traditional values" are rapidly disintegrating.

Come to think of it — given America's affection to the lowest common moral denominator — maybe we ARE teaching "the new traditional values."