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<ref>America’s Real War, (1999, Multnomah Publishers; Quoted in http://www.contenderministries.org/articles/moraldecline.php</ref></blockquote>

<ref>America’s Real War, (1999, Multnomah Publishers; Quoted in http://www.contenderministries.org/articles/moraldecline.php</ref></blockquote>

Another rare dissenting voice among a mainly liberal group, was moderately conservative [[Democrat]]  [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], who wrote ''Defining Deviancy Down'' (1993). Moynihan argued that, due to the "moral deregulation" of the 1960s,  

A rare dissenting voice among a mainly liberal group was moderately conservative [[Democrat]]  [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], who wrote ''Defining Deviancy Down'' (1993). Moynihan argued that, due to the "moral deregulation" of the 1960s,  

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the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can "afford to recognize" and that, accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the "normal" level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier standard. This redefining has evoked fierce resistance from defenders of "old" standards, and accounts for much of the present "cultural war" such as proclaimed by many at the 1992 Republican National Convention.

the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can "afford to recognize" and that, accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the "normal" level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier standard. This redefining has evoked fierce resistance from defenders of "old" standards, and accounts for much of the present "cultural war" such as proclaimed by many at the 1992 Republican National Convention.