Sex, Politics and Jesus

As a result, the conservative party gained strong support, even support from Democrats, who were liberal on issues regarding communism. This is the ideal where Christianity is not a factor, because Christian scripture tends to favor a social structured government. McGirr explains this: “Many religious conservatives resented this relativizing of moral absolutes, seeing it a threat to Christian beliefs and values” (229).

The introduction of Abortion to the US had a very similar effect as the sex education issue. With an increase of this promiscuous sex, there would also have to be new ways of educating the youth. For example, the conservative party reached further than just bringing religious groups in: “Not only was a new alliance struck between Protestants and Catholics, but the abortion issue also helped forge an alliance between registered Democrats and registered Republicans” (233); this brought Democrats to the Republican side. This is substantial evidence to prove that the parents with right wing religious ideals are influential. Nixon emphasized decentralization: “he began to reduce or dismantle many of the social programs of the Great Society and the New Frontier” (Brinkley et al, 542). Christian Religion was obviously not the only foundation of the party, because free enterprise often contradicts the “love one another” ideal of Christianity. The conservative party therefore protested against anti-religious controversy to gain the attention of Christian religious members, which resulted in many of them pledging their loyalty to the Republican Party, which even went against non-Christian ideals, such as hindering the lives of the poor and spreading capitalism. And I’m still registered a Democrat and I thought I was liberal, but I really don’t understand the meaning of the word’” (230). Conservatives were worried that the birth control pill would inevitably lead to permissive sex (McGirr, 160). ornography, birth control, sex education and abortion generated the most success, because all Christian religions were opposed to these.

President Nixon also proves that the Republican Party is focused on protecting capitalism. Future national Christian Right leaders “sought to put regulatory control [of pornographic material] in the hands of local communities” (227), thus giving control to the local communities that would enable them to make decisions that could potentially be unconstitutional.