By Samuel Willard Crompton
The kin values move is a conservative circulate that strongly helps conventional social values. This publication bargains scholars an target examine this crucial stream, which has wielded nice impression at the political panorama in addition to attracted significant controversy from its critics.
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Did a woman have the right to an abortion? Did a man have to support his family? Should affirmative 39 40 The Family Values Movement THe WaLToNS—counteR to aLL IN THe FaMILY The Waltons ran on CBS for almost the same period as All in the Family, nine seasons. During those years one of the most familiar and comforting of television sounds was hearing “Good night, John boy,” “Good night, Daddy,” and the like. Airing from 1972 to 1981, The Waltons was about life in rural Virginia during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Here, audience members react to Swaggart’s message during a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in February 1985. 63 64 The Family Values Movement PAt RobeRtson: foundeR of the chRistiAn coAlition of AmeRicA Pat Robertson had a soft smile and an easy way with words; some said he was as good a communicator as Ronald Reagan. Although he was one of the easiest of the evangelicals to underestimate, Pat Robertson was as devoted to the Christian cause as any man of his era. S. S. Senator and who championed the cause of segregation in the 1950s.
A fundamentalist Christian, a term coined in the 1920s, refers to someone who strictly followed the words of the Old and New Testaments. Evangelical Christians hold similar beliefs but did not want to be called fundamentalist, which had negative associations with the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. President Carter was definitely an evangelical Christian, but he was not a fundamentalist. Given that evangelical Christian churches were on the rise during the 1970s, one would expect Carter to enjoy a strong base of popularity throughout his presidency, but this was not the case, for he ran afoul of a newly resurgent fundamentalist movement.