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The Spectacle Blog
Short answer: almost, but not entirely. And it can be won back. I explain why, at the University of Mobile’s Center for Leadership.
Some of the good signs:
Moreover, much of the news on the legal fight for religious freedom in recent months has been good. With a few notable exceptions, court after court has issued preliminary injunctionsin favor of charities and businesses fighting the infamous “HHS mandate” that would force institutions to pay for abortion-inducing services against the strong, clear dictates of their faith…. A few other statistics also are encouraging: In 2010 (the last year available), the birth rate for U.S. teenagersreached historic lows for all ages and ethnic groups. This is not because abortions have gone up, but, it appears, because early sexual activity has slightly declined. As the Guttmmacher Institute reported last year, “teens are waiting longer to have sex than they did in the recent past” and “the most common reason that sexually inexperienced teens gave for not having had sex was that it was ‘against religion or morals’.”
There’s more. And you’ll see that I am anything but a Pollyanna. Traditionalists (which by now basically means anybody of decent standards at all) are back on our heels. But as Winston Churchill said, “never give in.”
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Jack in Wi| 1.11.13 @ 1:44PM
The culture does up and down. It is way down now. But a Christian has hope and faith in the future.
Quartermaster| 1.12.13 @ 7:52PM
But the source of that hope is the point. I have no hope for the culture. Quinn is dead wrong here, that's a loss.
MRD| 1.11.13 @ 1:55PM
Many people have pointed out that the only hope for a country of limited government, fiscally sound free market oriented country as conceived of by the founders is one in which a conservative ( read Judeo-Christian moral world view prevails). This does not necessarily mean it be composed of only believers, but rather that even the deists out there subscribe to it on philosophical grounds, much like many of the less formally religious founders, such as Jefferson did. The most recent person to make this case has been Robert George at Princeton University. Paraphrasing him, if citizens become morally degenerate they will lack the tools and will to provide for themselves and will seek government as refuge. This will result in the massive oppressive nanny state conservatives dislike. To the extent we lose the culture, we lose the whole ballgame. Those conservatives who imagine we can have a robust free market society, but its time to cede the culture to the left are living in a fantasy.
lsudolemite| 1.11.13 @ 6:15PM
The completely logical end result of government becoming God, which is what liberals already believe.
RJ| 1.12.13 @ 2:36AM
I agree MRD. Culture determines politics. We were a nation of self-reliance, committed to equality under the law, consent of the governed and personal autonomy. As people became more dependent-minded, they increasingly were used by those seeking power to exploit others.
The American Republic is no longer. The change in culture killed it. We now live in a corrupt dictatorship. Ben Franklin knew it would happen as he spoke at the close of the Constitutional Convention - "that this [Constitution] is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
C Bowen | 1.11.13 @ 8:26PM
Quin;
Do you put a lot of stock in the "self-reporting" survey method? On the rightwing blogsphere, that is pretty much a mocked method, and to use 'self-reporting' surveys to argue the culture is not lost is thin gruel.
CJW| 1.12.13 @ 3:53PM
Wall Street Journal reported on Jan 12 that:
"In 2008, Al Jazeera threw an on-air party for Samir Kuntar when he was released from an Israeli prison. Kuntar led a Palestine Liberation Front terrorist team that kidnapped an Israeli family in 1979. He shot the father and killed the 4-year-old daughter by smashing her head against rocks along the beach."
Now that Algore, Bubba's VP, and Joel Hyatt, major fundraiser for the Dems, sold Current TV to Aljazeera, and we will have Aljazeera spewing its garbage in the USA, what effect will that have on the culture?