Just Shoot Me....er, Him!

Steven Levitan, the producer of "Just Shoot Me", a typically brainless TV sitcom, has written an opinion piece in USA Today about being a Hollywood lefty. Here's the money quote:

You may have noticed there was no mention of church or Temple. I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work. We teach them to help those who aren't as lucky as they are. I am confident that they will go into the world with good morals and strong family values.

I don't doubt that Levitan and his wife love their kids and want the best for them. But trying to instill morals without a religious base is a waste of time. Morals become relative when not fixed by a spiritual underpinning, and relative morals shift with the changing times. The decline of Hollywood and society in general in the last 50 years is a result of shifting moral values.