>San Francisco Chronicle - September 25, 2002
>
>Apo logies to Bob Dylan, but the times they may be a-changin' -- again.
bob roberts, anyone? actually, even just looking at the subject line, i thought immediately of "family ties." isn't this old news--as in 'from the 80s' old?
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>Younger people are as liberal or more liberal than older generations on
>several issues, but religion and abortion stand out because in those
>areas, "youth do not consistently show the kind of liberalism that one
>might expect from the writings of some scholars or from those who point
>to the growing 'permissiveness' of the culture," the study's executive
>summary said.
now this actually is kind of an interesting point. bennett still actually arguing against/about boomers (like clinton) instead of the people he's ostensibly talking about.
>"Explaining it is mere speculation at this point," Strand said. "But it
>could be that politically conservative churches have done a much better
>job in socializing their young attendees to a conservative political
>position."
but it does imply a gap those churches are stepping into, doesn't it?
<snip>
>"They wonder why kids are fighting and not listening," said Bryan
>Douglas, 15, a student at Concord's Mount Diablo High School. "If they
>don't learn about God at home, they need to have him in school."
meaning, in this case, that they need to start by changing the name of the high school.
<snip>
>Yet, at the same time, youth expressed more liberal views than older
>people on sex and violence on television, the environment, and
>government protections against discrimination based on race, gender and
>sexual orientation.
maybe the boomers won, here.
j