AMERICA’S SEXUAL RIGHT TURN
INSIGHT
2 June 1997

“In general, my generation is confused,” says Christine O’Donnell, 27, head of the Saviors Alliance for Lifting the Truth, a Christian youth group that advocates sexual abstinence. “We’re craving more conservative values, more boundaries.” O’Donnell lectures at high schools about abstinence and says there always is a sigh of relief when teens hear that it’s okay to wait. “A lot of these kids have never had anyone tell them no, and they want that,” she explains.

Despite O’Donnell’s modest success - she has been featured on MTV and will fence comedian Al Franken on an upcoming episode of Politically Incorrect - her mission, she says, is a struggle against the still-dominant liberal culture. “People are always talking about how bad the seventies were, but things in the popular culture have gotten much worse even since then. I grew up watching Laverne and Shirley, and Lenny and Squiggy never slept over. Now with shows like Friends or Married i With Children, sex is everywhere. I mean, can you imagine the minds that were raised on those shows?”