![]() | Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right Subjects: Carter Jimmy 1924– -- Political and social views; Carter Jimmy 1924– -- Religion; United States -- Politics and government -- 1977–1981; Families -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Religious right -- United States -- His; As Jimmy Carter ascended to the presidency the heir apparent to Democratic liberalism, he touted his background as a born-again evangelical. Once in office, his faith indeed helped form policy on a number of controversial moral issues. By acknowledging certain behaviors as sinful while insisting that they were private matters beyond government interference, J. Brooks Flippen argues, Carter unintentionally alienated both social liberals and conservative Christians, thus ensuring that the debate over these moral "family issues" acquired a new prominence in public and political life. J. BROOKS FLIPPEN is a professor of history at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism and Nixon and the Environment . |
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