Meghan McCain Claims "Conservative Men Have Better Family Values"

[ATraveller]

The Labour Party, on the other hand, was culturally very much grounded in Protestant Nonconformity, especially Methodism, but also Baptists, Congregationalists, Quakers, and Unitarians. Old Labour politicians like Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, and Tony Benn all had long and happy marriages and held traditional conservative standards of personal morality. Interestingly, this was, of course, precisely the background from which Margaret Thatcher came, and she was in some ways more similar to some of her Labour contemporaries than she was to some of her Tory contemporaries.

And here Meghan McCain’s comments wouldn’t be valid with Old Labour. Her comment would work with a contemporary American context.

Protestant nonconformists were very strict with morality whereas the establish Churched was an institution predominantly about elitism rather than piety at the time. It was a club about power and giving elites jobs when they couldn’t find them elsewhere in the upper class world. Evangelicalism developed from that opposition against that elitism. Methodists acquired their name because of “methods” of maintaining personal holiness when they felt the established Church was failing to teach the Christian faith and emphasising a need for living out their faith.

Here again, it’s about where people gravitate towards and etc.