It would be outlandish for a politician, even the kookiest leftwinger to make any kind of speech or stand.
But if pressed, JFK at the time would certainly be against both concepts.
Had he lived, though, I would wager that he would have "evolved" into a social liberal, much like Ted Kennedy did.
It is easy to see the drug addicted, sick and perverted, womanizer and exploiter of women, being a social liberal, you sure pegged that right, JFK was not a social conservative then, and he sure wouldn’t be standing up as one today.
“Issues like abortion and gay rights weren’t even considered topics of discussion in the early 60s.
It would be outlandish for a politician, even the kookiest leftwinger to make any kind of speech or stand.
But if pressed, JFK at the time would certainly be against both concepts.”
Our society was much saner on those two issues during the early 1960s. Which by today’s left wing definitions makes EVERY major political figure in the 1960-1963 time period a social conservative/”intolerant right winger” in the eyes of the rabid psycholeft.
‘Had he lived, though, I would wager that he would have “evolved” into a social liberal, much like Ted Kennedy did.’
That’s probably true but since he died(as Michael Savage puts it) before we as a nation got culturally sick, we’ll never completely know for sure.
Ted Kennedy on abortion as late as 1971-
“While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized—the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old.
“On the question of the individual’s freedom of choice there are easily available birth control methods and information which women may employ to prevent or postpone pregnancy. But once life has begun, no matter at what stage of growth, it is my belief that termination should not be decided merely by desire.
“When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.”