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Show Moral evolution marks decade since cultural revolution of 1960s and advertising. . In another moral hotspot, teenage teen-age pregnancy has reflected a trend ' toward casual sex without regard to the possible consequences. Even with the emergence of incurable :: and deadly venereal diseases such as herpes and AIDS, teen-age preg- . i ' I Mpii . mmmmmmm t By SCOTT SUMMERCLL ; The 1980s will go down in history his-tory as a decade of moral evolution unseen since the cultural revolution revolu-tion of the 1960s. 'I The Gay community transformed from a mostly unheard, underground under-ground culture to a vocal and highly visible group. With unprecedented leaps in Gay rights such as commu-nityproperty commu-nityproperty settlements, adoptions by Gay couples and health benefits for Gay partners, , the "straight" .. community gained an awareness of the extent of the Gay community and their needs. , The television and movie industry indus-try echoed the social change with a myriad of productions showing Gays as "regular people" rather Jhan the stereo-typical portraits of 'sexually depraved deviates. . . , AothergitupfightingforeViual-ity AothergitupfightingforeViual-ity has jfrnpedback on the vocal bandwagon, but with a different , . approacv ninthepast Women's . rights-uts came out strong in . the sv'.des and fizzled into a less , vi-r' 3 posture in the seventies. tT!" V evr, the eighties seem to have r br; ht thesue back to a volatile f fcad--iA examples of male bash--big lzi2 TVTCzrtts; movies r r . . - y . , ; v y. .' nancy and conception out of wed- , lock have continued to rise during ; the eighties. When AIDS began showing up outside the Gay community, sex education took a dramatic upswing. ; Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop led the public sex education program with public service messages in nearly every : media, a TV documentary defining the nature Of the AIDS virus and how it is contracted and information informa-tion packets which were mailed to every home in the U.S. the public discussions of AIDS and sex opened the floodgates, and an onslaught of complaints spewed out from conservative con-servative communities and groups across the nation who held that sex education should bd taught in the privacy of the home. Another byproduct of the appar-. ; ent devil-may-care attitude toward sex has been the increased number of abortions in the U;S. And, with the increase in abortions, the battle between Pro-choice and Pro-life advocates has again reached a fever fitch. Demonstrations staged by oth sides have kept lawmakers on their toes trying to guess which way to vote without endangering their, chances for re-election, y ; . . y ".; Z ' y :" - a"'si - Perhaps orie of the' most difficult : moral questions facing U.S. society is the right to die. Medical technology technol-ogy has made giant strides during the eighties, making it possible to . sustain physical life for indefinite periods. The quality of 'life 'of comatose patients being kept alive by machines has been challenged by families of the patients, and the question of when to pull the plug ' has been a hot issue in the country's . courts. The issue is sure to make ' headlines as medical technology improves even further. An interesting tide of "just say no" to drugs has swept the country as well. Interesting because many of the people behind the drug-free society movement were also part of . the "turn on, tune in, drop out" counter-culture of the sixties. However, the dangers of drugs have been recognized and the battlefield ' of the war against them has found its way into every corner of Ameri- . can life. In fact, the indictment of Panama's General Manuel Noriega Nori-ega on drug charges and U.S.finan-. U.S.finan-. cial and military ' support to' Colombia's anti-drug movement sent a global message that the U.S. t will combat drugs throughout the world. " - " ' " ' "ti " j 7 ""' .' " : y'-:t" Tis the season Decorations demonstrate the joy of the season as businesses and rec!dort3 celebrate the end of a St ih (I ftyfM , - ' - |