1. The Culture Wars
Fighting over the Family

2. What about the Children?
School Prayer
Sex Education

3. School Prayer
 Engel v. Vitale, 1962
 Abington v. Schempp, 1963

4. Reading
Letters to the Editor, Engel v. Vitale

5. Sex
Education
Sexuality Information and
Education Council of the
United States (SIECUS), 1964
Mothers Organized for Moral
Stability (MOMS), 1968

6.  “[If] the new morality is affirmed, our children will
become easy targets for Marxism and other amoral,
nihilistic philosophies—as well as V.D.!” ~ Gordon
Drake, 1968
 “If our humanist educrats were as interested in
teaching Johnny and Jane to read, write, and do
math as they are in making them sexually active
before marriage, we would have a nation of
teenagers with academic skills, instead of a country
of youthful fornicators.” ~ Tim LaHaye, 1983

7. Abstinence Only
Education
 Adolescent Family Life Act
(AFLA), 1981
 Title V of the Welfare
Reform Act of 1996
 Community-Based
Abstinence Education, 2001

9. Christian Schools
 Mel and Normal Gabler
 The Kanawha County textbook war, 1973
 Carter threatens tax exempt status
 Mozert v. Board of Education, 1987
https://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=Uue
QpSoMBYM

10. “Save Our Children”
 “As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot
biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must
recruit our children.” ~ Anita Bryant
 Miami-Dade County, 1977
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87sPFeyzGrY

11. The Moral Majority

12. Women’s Liberation

13. A Woman’s Place is in the
Home?

14. The Divorce Rate

15. The Equal Rights Amendment

16. Reading
Opposition to the ERA

17.  "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for
women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political
movement that encourages women to leave their
husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft,
destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
 ~ Pat Robertson, 1992

18. What Is a Family?
Discussion: How do you define “family”?

19. Reading
The White House Conference on the Family, 1980

20. Marriage Equality
 The central question: How does growing up in a
same-sex household affect children?
 What does it suggest that this is the central
question?

21. The Family in
Decline?