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What does the Moral Majority stand for?

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Copper · 04/11/2004 12:00

This really is a plea for information from all you American mumsnetters. Now we have Bush for a further 4 years, and the Supreme Court likely to be affected for 30 years or so, what does the Moral Majority actually want? Are we talking about rolling back feminism? Are we talking about abolishing divorce (because of the importance of family)? Criminalizing homosexuality? Or is it 'just' abortion and gay marriage?

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bundle · 04/11/2004 12:04

absolutely copper, and Christopher Reeve's family can forget any progress on stem cell research...

JoolsToo · 04/11/2004 12:04

oh oh!

Fibe · 04/11/2004 12:06

this all makes me

Fibe · 04/11/2004 12:09

from a non-american, can they actually abolish things that have already been accepted, and effectively go backwards?

KateandtheGirls · 04/11/2004 12:21

Yes, Fibe, the Supreme Court can. For example, if Bush were to appoint conservative judges (which would not be a huge shocker), the Supreme Court could overturn Roe vs Wade which was the ruling 30 years ago that made abortion legal in all the states. If that happened individual states could decide for themselves, and a lot of the Bible belt states would make it illegal.

JoolsToo · 04/11/2004 12:24

not that I want to see it happen - but surely if you were born and raised in the 'bible belt' wouldn't that be the teaching anyway and you'd agree with the anti-abortionists or will it mean mass exodus to liberal states and low populated right wing ones? - or is that daft!!!

hercules · 04/11/2004 12:29

No. How many women came over here as abortion is or was illegal in Ireland. Lots.

KateandtheGirls · 04/11/2004 12:41

Up to a point, JT. But just because the majority of people in say, Mississippi, agree with Bush's philosophy (and I'm sure he won there by a sizable majority), there are some who don't. These are the states where there is a lot of poverty (I'm generalising here), and I would think part of that is to do with the high rates of teenage pregnancy.

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Copper · 04/11/2004 13:23

I waas quite curious as to why divorce seems to be acceptable or noncontroversial - it's not in the Bible, is it

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KateandtheGirls · 04/11/2004 14:01

I don't think it is acceptable and non-controversial with the Bible Belt type people.

Uhu · 04/11/2004 14:39

I'm not an American but I thought the Constitution decreed that the State and Church should remain separate. From what I can see, the boundary is being slowly eroded by the Fundamentalists Christians and Neo-Conservatives. Is this the case and and if so, are the common sense Americans worried about their country being stealthily manipulated into a psuedo-religious state?

KateandtheGirls · 04/11/2004 14:58

Uhu - yes, I think you're right, and yes, it worries me.

winnie1 · 04/11/2004 15:05

Copper, I wondered this too... good question!
KateandtheGirls thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Tinker · 04/11/2004 15:09

There is divorce in the Bible. It's remarriage that's the problem.

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Copper · 04/11/2004 16:12

So does anyone know where we can find out more?

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KateandtheGirls · 04/11/2004 17:59

About what specifically, Copper?

KateandtheGirls · 05/11/2004 15:09

BUMP

MrsDoolittle · 05/11/2004 15:12

Anyone watch The Power of Nightmares? Absolutely fascinately.
The future is scary!

MrsDoolittle · 05/11/2004 15:13

I meant facinating.

aloha · 05/11/2004 15:36

I am extremely concerned about the rise of the conservative religious right in the US, just as I am about radical Islam in the East. Both are very, very bad news for women in particular.
ATM, as I understand it, the religious right want a ban on state funding for abortion clinics and for stem cell research. No gay marriage, no sex education in schools and no state funded contraception. There would be 'abstinence education' instead. Welfare for work is central, which in practise means single mothers hounded into horribly unsuitable jobs even if they don't have childcare. Longer term aims include abortion being made illegal and homosexual acts made illegal.
I saw the list of states won by Kerry and Bush, and I realised that every single, civilised, cultured, place in the US that I would consider living in went to Kerry. While everywhere where the Klu Klux Klan had a good run in their day, voted Bush.

KateandtheGirls · 05/11/2004 15:39

Unfortunately I'm living in a state that went for Bush, but I think we are somewhat civilised and cultured here. Certainly more so than somewhere like Arkansas, for example. But I know what you mean aloha.

aloha · 05/11/2004 15:48

Sorry! I suppose it was a bit of a generalisation, but there did seem to be quite a pattern going on.

KateandtheGirls · 05/11/2004 15:54

Oh there's definitely a pattern. I agree.

Now get back to work!

MrsDoolittle · 05/11/2004 15:59

What about the theory that the voting was rigged.
How could an exit poll be soo wrong? And who was the chap who promised to hand Bush Ohio on a plate?
Another worrying possibilty.

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