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The [[Conservative Family Campaign]] was created in 1986. | The [[Conservative Family Campaign]] was created in 1986. | ||
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| + | According to the political scientist Martin Durham it was the CFC which ‘rejected the argument of both [[CARE]] and [[Family and Youth Concern]] that the traditional family needed to be defended from a position of political independence. It argued that although the Conservatives were not yet properly supportive of the family, the greatest danger lay in a Labour return to office and that Christians needed both to work and pray for the re-election of Margaret Thatcher. As with other ‘pro-family’ groupings, the [[Conservative Family Campaign]] devoted considerable energy to abortion, homosexuality and other of the facets of what might be described as an old pro-family agenda. However in its denunciations of single-parent families, above all in its 1988 pamphlet, ‘’A Tax on Marriage’’, in which it called for the tax and social security system to “discriminate” in favour of married couples, it anticipated what in the 1990s would become the social agenda of significant sections of the New Right’<ref name=”Durham2”>Martin Durham ‘[http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/54/3/459 The Conservative Party, New Labour and the politics of the family]’, ‘’Parliamentary Affairs’’, 54 (3): 459. (2001)</ref> | ||
==Views== | ==Views== | ||
Revision as of 13:01, 24 August 2010
The Conservative Family Campaign was created in 1986.
Orientation
According to the political scientist Martin Durham it was the CFC which ‘rejected the argument of both CARE and Family and Youth Concern that the traditional family needed to be defended from a position of political independence. It argued that although the Conservatives were not yet properly supportive of the family, the greatest danger lay in a Labour return to office and that Christians needed both to work and pray for the re-election of Margaret Thatcher. As with other ‘pro-family’ groupings, the Conservative Family Campaign devoted considerable energy to abortion, homosexuality and other of the facets of what might be described as an old pro-family agenda. However in its denunciations of single-parent families, above all in its 1988 pamphlet, ‘’A Tax on Marriage’’, in which it called for the tax and social security system to “discriminate” in favour of married couples, it anticipated what in the 1990s would become the social agenda of significant sections of the New Right’[1]
Views
Gay Rights
According to the Daily Telegraph:
- Dr Adrian Rogers, chairman of the Conservative Family Campaign, said in 1991 that homosexuality was "a sterile, disease-ridden and God-forsaken relationship".[2]
People
- Adrian Rogers | Stephen Green | Graham-Webster-Gardiner | Julian Brazier MP, President circa 2010[3]
See also
Christian Voice | Family and Youth Concern | National Viewers and Listeners Association | CARE
Resources
- Martin Durham 'The New Right, moral crusades and the politics of the family', Economy and Society, Volume 22, Issue 2 May 1993 , pages 253 - 256
Notes
- ↑ Martin Durham ‘The Conservative Party, New Labour and the politics of the family’, ‘’Parliamentary Affairs’’, 54 (3): 459. (2001)
- ↑ Daily Telegraph, Obituaries: Professor Peter Campbell Published: 12:01AM BST 15 Jun 2005
- ↑ Conservative Party Julian Brazier, accessed 22 August 2010
