Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, comparing the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion to the infamous Dred Scott case in which a black slave was held to be the property of his owner. "This issue will be the rise and fall of many," Bernie says, because "abortion is a denial of the Judeo-Christian emphasis of the Founding Fathers. They assumed that those who interpreted the law would be of this ethic. The Human Life Amendment will be the last great document of Western Civilization--like God speaking the Abraham, the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation...
...move to the Sunbelt is on! It appears that the rest of this country has discovered the South's faith in God and belief in the Judeo-Christian ethic...
Flannery O'Connor wrote: ''A half-hour's ride in this region will take one from places where the life has a distinctly Old Testament flavor to places where the life might be considered post-Christian. Yet all these varied situations can be seen in one glance and heard in one conversation...
...much remains the same. Given its predominantly Anglo-Saxon traditions and largely Protestant population-black and white-Christian revelation is a way of life in Dixie. "Others tend to scoff at the Bible Belt," says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, now a professor of international law at the University of Georgia. "But one can point to a strong sense of personal responsibility it engenders." Florida Governor Reubin Askew believes that "your faith has to be at the center of your life, and from it must emanate all your decisions...
...mixture of simple blood ties and rooted soil, of patriotic and military zeal, has risen a quality that many Northerners cannot find credible: a respect for law. It is this more than Christian principle or force of arms that has brought the South into contemporary life...