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Article: Liberals dismayed at losing debate on 'moral values'; Advocates want to expand the dialogue beyond abortion and civil unions
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2004
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NEW YORK (AP) - Family values, traditional values and now, "moral
values." Most American adults would say they have them, and yet that
two-word phrase is the focus of an ideological tug-of-war heightened
by President Bush's re-election, with conservatives declaring
principal ownership and liberals scrambling to challenge them.
"We need to work really hard at reclaiming some language," said
the Rev. Robert Edgar, general secretary of the liberal-leaning
National Council of Churches.
"The religious right has successfully gotten out there shaping
personal piety issues - civil unions, abortion - as almost the total
content of 'moral values,'" Edgar said. "And yet you can't read the
Old Testament ...