Fighting the culture battle for our children's future

Compared to today, many of the messages that our children received from popular culture in the 1960s and 70s were positive or at least not harmful. We all remember the Motown love ballads of groups like The Temptations who sang songs with lyrics like: "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May. I guess you'd say, 'What can make me feel this way?' My girl...." Marvin Gaye's What's Happening Brother album offered a commentary on war, poverty, drug abuse and pollution. And there was message music like James Brown's anthem, Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud. This music was hugely successful commercially and broadly popular among all racial and …