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“But for Christian conservatives of the 1950s and 1960s, this collection of policies constituted a new and ethically dangerous credo that would cut the human body adrift from Christian theology, state control and sexual restraint, with all sorts of ramifications for the social order.3”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“This ensured that the corporation had an instinct to look upon topics like sex and Humanism as entwined serpents to be kept resolutely from the air.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“puritanism”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“However docile British students were in comparison to their cousins in Europe or even the USA, by the early 1970s there had been a seismic shift in British culture away from deference.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“143 Even into the early 1960s, despite the threats, conservative Christians still exuded confidence in the widespread acceptance of their vision that Christianity was strengthened by battling sex.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“He took the reason to be BBC prejudice against a Humanist.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“Theocracy was constantly moderated by quiet resistance.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“The PMC represented the conservative moralist version of Christian Britain.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“and proposes multiple realms of battle where Christian Britain met the power of those striving to facilitate the autonomy of the individual.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“But the Council came to have enormous influence around the United Kingdom and overseas.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“for her daring suggestion on BBC radio in 1955 that children would be better off learning morality without religion.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“sex that this was a period of high sexual fidelity, low illegitimacy and a repressive culture. It was all a fraud.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“There is a contrast to be drawn between how priests and ministers got to air on religious broadcasts,”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“Not for nothing was Britain in the 1950s and into the early 1960s regarded by many as dark and joyless and especially oppressive for girls and women.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“of campaigning and legislating. The book introduces Humanist leadership in modern ethics, with a progressive agenda to change legislation, the control of public culture, government policy and reshape narratives about human morality and origins told by the nation to itself.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“the vaunted superiority of the white man’.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“by paid and unpaid agents of conservative Christianity.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“the first kicking off with church growth unmatched since the Victorian era, the second with church collapse not witnessed before.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“The book posits that after some strengthening in the 1940s and 1950s, the religious dimension of the establishment was rather forcibly diminished in the 1960s and 1970s.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980

“In Chapter 8, we examine key Humanists who in the post-war decades identified the churches as the main obstacle to sexual reform and to establishing a modern moral education.”
― Callum G. Brown, The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945–1980