George Carey Quotes
We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
Carey, George. Interview by Tony Jones. Lateline, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 19 Sept. 2002.
In the programs she is describing, young people make virginity pledges. However when research is done on these programs, it turns out that about half of the youngsters that take the virginity pledges engage in sex within the next 5 years—the same percentage of young people who do not take any pledges or participate in programs to delay premarital sex. However, taking a counterculture approach for what 50 years ago was the mainstream culture shows the extensive cultural change that America has made.
Some other Republican governors thought that Fordice had misspoken and offered him a chance to correct or modify his statement. He declined.
George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, PC is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, having previously been the Bishop of Bath and Wells.