"The Moral Majority, Christian Voice, and other groups of the 1970s and 1980s had a far broader issue agenda than their predecessors. The core agenda involved opposition to abortion, civil rights protection for gays and lesbians, and the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, which would have guaranteed equal rights for women], and support for school prayer and tuition tax credits for religious schools. But the organizations staked positions on a variety of other issues as well. [Jerry] Falwell . . . consistently supported increases in defense spending. The Moral Majority Report, the organization's newsletter, attempted to build support for conservative economic issues as well, including a subminimum wage, a return to the gold standard, and cuts in social welfare spending."

Clyde Wilcox, historian, 2003

1. The excerpt most directly reflects which change in United States society during the 1970s and 1980s?
2. The widespread closing of public schools
3. An increase in the number of traditional nuclear families
4. The rise of political activism among evangelicals
5. The emergence of a youth-based counterculture