he was called a homophobe. When he drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, he was called an anti-Semite. These are just a few examples of how Americans are being trained to think and to speak with sensitivity towards others. American society contains so many different races and ethnicitys that a system had to be developed in order for our country to proceed peacefully (www.mere-christianity.org/heston.htm).In one instance, Time/Warner, the biggest entertainment conglomerate in the world, was marketing a CD by Ice-T called Cop Killer. This CD had extremely vulgar lyrics, but Time/Warner, along with the media, was afraid to say anything against it because the rap artist was black. This is an important story to learn from. Americans have gotten so involved with political correctness in order to make everyone feel included in this country that they have forgotten common sense and basic values. Martin Gross in his book, The End of Sanity, writes There seem to be new customs, new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from every direction. Because of this trend in America, we can tell that our culture is forever changing. It seems that the concept of political correctness is trying to unite America to be tolerant towards everyone, but the mere fact that we need a system of political correctness shows that America is not truly united (www.mere-christianity.org/heston.htm).It is evident that religion in America has changed through the years, and that many religious changes have brought about changes in the American culture. In the early part of the twentieth century, the following events were unthinkable: In 1986, Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ, Reform and Conservative Jews, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Episcopal Church, the Methodist Church, and many others joined together to lead a pro-choice march. In the same year, Mormons, conserva...
