Americans also favor 24-hour waiting period laws, 69 - 28 percent.

Another 64 percent also support laws banning "partial birth abortion" in the last six months of pregnancy, except to save the mother's life. Just 31 oppose such laws.

Half of those polled (50 percent) said they support laws requiring women to be shown an ultrasound of their unborn child at least 24 hours before an abortion.

Americans are more narrowly divided over other abortion restrictions.

At DakotaVoice.com, my Editor, Bob Ellis, and I, along with various other authors, regularly write about the dangers to America's moral and cultural fabric that the radical homosexual movement represents, not to mention the dangers posed to the homosexuals themselves by that wretched lifestyle. Invariably, the homosexual activists come rampaging onto the comment sections of the columns we write with their terrifically venomous "contributions."

So let me offer a few preliminary thoughts, bearing in mind that more light and information about this act of evil will be forthcoming in days to come. As far as a general Christian apologetic on all this (why does God allow evil?), I won't - and can't - presume to solve that issue here.

The second is the condom code. The supporters of condoms as the primary prevention method insist that any program be "sex positive". In other words, there is no need for anyone to change their sexual behavior as long as they use a condom every time. This is a risk reduction strategy since new infections would not be eliminated, only reduced, given the known failure rate of condoms and the fact that even the most motivated sexually active persons rarely achieve 100 per cent usage.