Our endangered values
Subtitle: America's moral crisis
By: Jimmy Carter.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Social values -- United States; Religious fundamentalism -- United States; Christianity and politics -- United States; Church and state -- United States; Church and social problems -- United States; Human rights -- Government policy -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001- -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001- -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States -- Moral conditions
Description: President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In this book, he offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred. He reacts to some trends involving both the religious and the political worlds as they have increasingly become intertwined, and including some of the most crucial and controversial issues of the day--frequently encapsulated under "moral values." They include preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America's global image, fundamentalism, and the melding of religion and politics. Sustained by his faith, Carter assesses these issues in a forceful and unequivocal but balanced and courageous way.--From publisher description.