Edited by Laura I. Rendon and Richard O. Hope, Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, San Francisco, CA 1996. 490 pp. $34.95
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.
The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”
