~~~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 #MAGIC Videx q="christian right" <html><img src="http://deoxy.org/img/warisover.jpg" style="width:100%" border="0"></a></html>