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- Title
Culture Wars Against the Boy Scouts.
- Authors
Donohue, William A.
- Abstract
The article discusses culture wars against the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). In the 1980s BSA became the target of attack by homosexuals, atheists, and feminists. Acting in concert with these groups has been the American Civil Liberties Union. At stake is whether a private organization that supports traditional morality is protected by the law against assaults from those who are inimical to its values. Culture reflects the higher ideas, theological and philosophical, that unite society and inform politics. Moral precepts drawn from these higher ideas instruct not only the mores of society, but the legal code as well. The BSA has been targeted by modern liberals precisely because it promotes the morality that was offended by Mapplethorpe, the morality that upholds marriage and sees the family as the primary force for the elevation of character and thus culture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CULTURE conflict; BOY Scouts; HOMOSEXUALITY; ETHICS; SOCIAL conflict; BOYS' societies &; clubs
- Publication
Society, 1994, Vol 31, Issue 4, p59
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02693249