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    ~~~Imported from [Wikipedia:Culture_war 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
    [Wikipedia:Strict_father conservative] or
    Wikipedia:authoritarian and
    those considered
    [Wikipedia:Progressivism progressive] or
    [Wikipedia:Liberalism 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 Wikipedia:secular culture by [Wikipedia:Christian_right right-wing Christians]:
     
    *Wikipedia:Abortion / Wikipedia:Reproductive_rights
    *Wikipedia:Age_of_consent / [Deoxy:media/Kids,_Sex_and_the_State War on Sex]
    *Wikipedia:Animal_Rights
    *Media:Climate_Denial
    *Wikipedia:Creation_vs._evolution
    *Wikipedia:Death_penalty
    *[Meme:MADDness Drinking age] / [Deoxy:pdfa War on Drugs]
    *[Deoxy:gaia/kidslibnow.htm Family values]
    ** Wikipedia:Corporal_punishment
    ** Wikipedia:Child_discipline, most notably Wikipedia:spanking
    *Wikipedia:Feminism
    *Wikipedia:Gun_politics
    *Wikipedia:Homosexuality, Wikipedia:Gay_rights, and Wikipedia:Gay_marriage
    ** Wikipedia:California_Proposition_8
    *Wikipedia:Identity_politics
    *Wikipedia:Law_and_order
    *Wikipedia:Media_bias_in_the_United_States
    *Wikipedia:Moral_absolutism vs. Wikipedia:Moral_relativism
    *Wikipedia:Multiculturalism
    *Wikipedia:Permissive_society
    *Wikipedia:Political_correctness
    *Wikipedia:Pornography / Wikipedia:Obscenity
    *Wikipedia:Privitization
    *[Wikipedia:Race_(classification_of_humans) Race], Wikipedia:Racism, and Wikipedia:Xenophobia
    *Wikipedia:Right_to_die and Wikipedia:euthanasia
    *Wikipedia:Secularism and Wikipedia:Secularization
    *Wikipedia:Separation_of_church_and_state
    *Wikipedia:Sexual_revolution
    **Wikipedia:Sexual_education and [Wikipedia:Sexual_abstinence abstinence-only]
    *Wikipedia:Stem-cell_research
    *Wikipedia:Transhumanism
     
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