The Truth Behind AMERICA'S MORAL CRISIS - Gene H Hogberg - February-March 1985

Gene H Hogberg

An all-out assault on spiritual values and the family IS reaping a bitter harvest. The role of religion and morality in modern society emerged as a big issue in the 1984 election campaign in the United States. Religion and politics - or religion versus politics, as some view it - threatens to become an even more explosive issue during President Ronald Reagan's second term. During the '84 campaign, President Reagan found himself at the heart of the swirling controversy. He came out strongly against the continuance of legalized abortion, permitted under a 1973 Supreme Court decision. He also endorsed voluntary prayer in the nation's public schools. Until another Supreme Court decision, this time in 1962, opening-day prayers in American public school classrooms had been commonplace. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library