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>How can you call it the first volley when the original issue was Evangelical America's obsession with banning everything they don't like?
The American Evangelical movement's politicisation starts in the 70s with Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. That didn't come out of nowhere by any means - it was a clear reaction to the counter-cultural currents of the 60s and 70s that had completely transformed America in a remarkably short space of time. In about 20 years you had major moral sea changes like:
>the sexual revolution - premarital sex, pornography and homosexuality went from being socially disgraceful to publicly rampant
>the legalisation of abortion after Roe v Wade and sudden widespread access to contraceptives
>the removal of prayer and Bible reading from public schools following Engel v Vitale and Abington v.Schempp
>the rise of feminism, women in the workplace and the Equal Rights Amendment, completely transforming the American family unit
>the introduction of family-wrecking welfare policies - it suddenly paid more to be a single mother than to have a husband looking after you. This destroyed black urban populations in particular and led to rampant lawlessness, immorality and indigence in major cities
>the emergence of a liberal consensus in government and media - secular humanism pushed by a new non-WASP liberal elite suddenly replaced Christian values in public life