It doesn't help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown -- a
character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid,
professional woman -- mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a
child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice."
I know it is not fashionable to talk about moral values, but we need to
do it. Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the
national newspapers routinely jeer at them, I think that most of us in
this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.
Now it's time to make the discussion public.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
-- addressing the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
-- and criticizing Murphy Brown's decision to NOT have an abortion
-- and to be a single (highly successful) mother, 5/19/92.
When told about Quayle's comments, a senior
Bush campaign official replied only "Oh, dear."
Bush's top aide said, "The world is a lot more complex
than Dan would like to believe"
character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid,
professional woman -- mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a
child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice."
I know it is not fashionable to talk about moral values, but we need to
do it. Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the
national newspapers routinely jeer at them, I think that most of us in
this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.
Now it's time to make the discussion public.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
-- addressing the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
-- and criticizing Murphy Brown's decision to NOT have an abortion
-- and to be a single (highly successful) mother, 5/19/92.
When told about Quayle's comments, a senior
Bush campaign official replied only "Oh, dear."
Bush's top aide said, "The world is a lot more complex
than Dan would like to believe"
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