Culture war

Imported from Wikipedia on 2010-10-24

The culture war (or culture wars) in American usage is a metaphor used to describe political conflicts based on sets of conflicting cultural values. The term frequently implies a conflict between those values considered conservative or authoritarian and those considered progressive or liberal. The "culture war" is sometimes traced to the 1960s and has taken various forms since then.

Battleground issues in the "culture wars"

Most of these "issues" are actually attacks on secular culture by right-wing Christians:

• Abortion / Reproductive rights
• Age of consent / War on Sex
• Animal Rights
• Climate Denial
• Creation vs. evolution
• Death penalty
• Drinking age / War on Drugs
• Family values
  • Corporal punishment
  • Child discipline, most notably spanking
• Feminism
• Gun politics
• Homosexuality, Gay rights, and Gay marriage
  • California Proposition 8
• Identity politics
• Law and order
• Media bias in the United States
• Moral absolutism vs. Moral relativism
• Multiculturalism
• Permissive society
• Political correctness
• Pornography / Obscenity
• Privitization
• Race, Racism, and Xenophobia
• Right to die and euthanasia
• Secularism and Secularization
• Separation of church and state
• Sexual revolution
  • Sexual education and abstinence-only
• Stem-cell research
• Transhumanism