The historic speech that Ambassador Alan Keyes made at the State House on July 25 was not reported by any of our media, but we reprint the speech in its entirety on page 3. We have extracted portions of it here for those who like soundbites.

Question Faced by Gov. Cellucci
I don't think that I, or anybody else in this society, has the right or the prerogative to be meddling about in the personal affairs of human beings... of what they want to do with their private selves according to their precepts.... 
But to pretend that that is the issue here is one of the most egregious, lying pieces of propaganda I've ever seen.

We are not gathered here to claim the right to interfere in the private lives and affairs of anybody in this Commonwealth or this nation. 

We are gathered here to claim and defend the right, which comes to us from God, to live according to our religious faith, and to raise our children according to those religious beliefs.

No Morals on Anything!
Why are these legislatures singling out one form of sexual activity for special protection against moral judgment?...

And the true implication of what they're doing is not simply to withdraw moral sanction and judgment from homosexual behavior, but from all sexual behavior, however it violates the precept of sexual responsibility and decency....

Are We Animals?
I know the folks in Hollywood make movies like "She's Gotta Do It" and "She's Gotta Have It," and so forth and so on. But that's because folks in Hollywood long ago concluded that we are no longer human beings, but animals, subject to instincts that we cannot control. 

I don't believe it, I'm sorry. I don't believe this. I believe that there is another element of our nature - an element that responds to moral truth, to rationality, to suasion, and that by the grace of God we have within us the ability to respond to the principles of that element of our nature in such a way as to guide and to structure what might otherwise be the irresistible impulses of bodily passion.

Why U.S. Has Not Suffered Like Africa
When I was Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, I got a briefing - this was way back in the early 1980's - from the World Health Organization. They described the nature of AIDS and the virus and predicted the terrible things that would happen. 

They knew that in certain parts of the world it would be contained, and in other parts of the world it had the potential to be so destructive that whole populations would be threatened. 

And you know what the difference was? 

It was a difference in sexual mores between one part of the world and another. In some parts of the world, rampant promiscuity was the philosophy and ideology confined to only certain kinds of sexual groups. But in places like Africa it was a philosophy spread throughout the entire population, heterosexual as well as homosexual, and they predicted then, that that difference of moral philosophy would, in fact, lead to an awesome difference in the death toll that would be faced because of this terrible scourge. 

When are we going to step back, my friends, and realize that they weren't just talking through their hats? They knew what they were talking about, and as they predicted, so it has occurred. 

Where We're Headed Now
We have before us the most clear example we can of what will happen if we allow the general breakdown of sexual morality and sexual responsibility that is encouraged by what this state is trying to do in its schools. And it will not be the birth of halcyon days of tolerance and naturalism in sexual activity. It appears that, instead, it will be the lengthening shadow of death for individuals to whom we owe not such a fate of death but our most compelling arguments of love. 

Are we willing to face that responsibility? Or instead, will we be complicit in allowing this society to become the stage and arena for just such an awesome scourge?

Love of Children
I am standing here today because of what may be, in many respects, the most fundamental kind of love that a society depends upon, and that is the love of parents for their children. That love is what brings me to this place. A love informed and motivated, yes, by the very real and very deep faith that is a fundament of my life as an individual.

First Amendment Gives Us Right to 'Act'
The First Amendment has to do not with what we believe, but with our right to translate that belief into action in the way that we live. Now I have to tell you, that's not an accident in a country where, when the First Amendment was written, many, many people were active and professing Christian folks, just as they are today. And why do I point that out? I point it out because, like some other religions, different from some, Christianity is not a religion of ritual, it is not a religion of rote, it is an ethical religion that requires that that faith abundant in the heart be expressed in the overflowing of our actions in the world. It is true, in fact, that we cannot be Christians if we do not act according to our faith.

Where Are the Bigots?
And they try to pretend, "Oh, these religious bigots are imposing their moral views." 

No! Actually, right now the bigotry is on the other end. Right now the courts abuse their power in order to destroy the First Amendment rights and freedoms of those who do nothing except to act according to that right that guarantees that we can carry our faith into action and raise our children according to our religious beliefs.

Not Equal to Race
It has been a precept of all moral life, throughout rational human history, that you hold people morally responsible only for those things about which they could have some moral choice, and if they don't have a choice, then they're not morally responsible.

Okay. But what does it mean, then, to say that homosexuality is like race? Well, when I got up this morning, as all of you can see, I was a black guy. When I go to bed this evening, I will still be a black guy.... And that being the case, it's absurd to suggest that I'm somehow responsible for the behavior of my skin cells. Therefore, if homosexuality is like race, then homosexuality - all sexuality - is beyond the control of the individual. 

Undermines All Morals
This is what I find so objectionable about what is being done in the name of education in this state. For in order to promote the effort by one group to destroy the religious freedom of every other group, the state is sanctioning an approach to education that not only undermines sexual responsibility, it undermines that assumption of human moral capacity that is necessary for any moral education at all.

Abandon Our Foundations?
The question that is faced by the Governor and the Massachusetts legislature, and especially by all the parents and citizens of Massachusetts, is this: In the name of furthering the agenda of one narrow special interest seeking to sacrifice the good of the whole to the satisfaction of their passion, can we afford to abandon the logical precepts that are the foundation of the very possibility of moral life and moral responsibility?

I don't know what conclusion others come to in this. But when folks approach me, as sometimes folks have, and they say, "Well, you're lacking in Christian compassion because you don't want to tolerate this kind of behavior," how compassionate is it to approach a society and say that for the sake of my indulgence in sexual passion, society must abandon the very foundations of moral life which separate that moral life from anarchy and self-destruction? 

I will say here what I have said throughout my career. 

There Will Be A Cost
See, there's a cost to doing what we have to do, especially if the courts are going to come against us and threaten to throw us in jail and slap us with this and that. But my friends, there is a cost to not doing what we are supposed to do. There is a cost, as well, if we do not have the fortitude, not only to be followers of what is right, but also to step forward as leaders who will speak for those rights. 

I've got to tell you, I know for a truth that there are hearts on both sides of the party line that can be touched by these moral concerns. I do have to point out, just as a matter of partisan pride though, that it does seem to be the case, by and large, that it's mostly Republican hearts that are moved to take the risk to stand up and do something about it. But there can be no partisan barrier that divides the heart of parental love according to some party label. When it comes to what we owe our children, to what we owe their moral education, to what we owe this nation in order to preserve the heritage of moral discipline that is essential to our freedom, there can be no Democrats and no Republicans. There must only be Americans and human beings determined to do our duty!