By Samuel Willard Crompton
The kin values circulation is a conservative flow that strongly helps conventional social values. This ebook bargains scholars an target examine this crucial circulation, which has wielded nice impression at the political panorama in addition to attracted significant controversy from its critics.
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He was the first 41 42 The Family Values Movement presidential candidate to grant an interview to Playboy, where he revealed that he had experienced lust many times in his heart, but that he had refrained from acting upon it. Previous candidates had not felt it necessary to make this kind of statement. Although he was a born-again Christian, Carter was clearly pro-choice, and he was in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), then pending the approval of the states. Carter narrowly won the November 1976 election over Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, thereby becoming the first avowed born-again Christian to be elected in the twentieth century.
Priests and pastors had immediately seen the positive or negative impact of the Supreme Court decision, but few politicians in 1973 realized how much the debate about abortion would shape Republican and Democratic party politics during the next 20 years. 37 38 The Family Values Movement The April 8, 1966, cover of Time illustrated what many Americans thought was a general movement away from God and the religionbased values that had defined America in the past. In response, Evangelical Christians such as Dr.
The most vocal baby boomers, however, were those who, in everincreasing numbers, protested against it. S. government. Never before, at least not since the time of the American Civil War, had Americans been so divided about a set of issues. In November 1967, Dr. Benjamin Spock and four others were indicted for counseling young men about how to avoid the military draft. The New Haven Five were placed on trial in the beginning of 1968, and Dr. Spock was suddenly in the headlines once more. Millions of American parents, who had been much younger when they first purchased Baby and Child Care, remembered him and quite a few criticized him about what had happened to American youth during the 20 years since his book had been published.
