That year she broadcast on Woman's Hour on the day before the coronation of Elizabeth II "as a loyal housewife and subject" and wrote an extensive article on homosexuality for The Sunday Times. Īfter raising her sons in their earliest years, Whitehouse returned to teaching in 1953. The couple had five sons, two of whom (twins) died in infancy. At MRA meetings, she met Ernest Raymond Whitehouse they married at Chester on 23 March 1940 and remained married until he died in Colchester, Essex, aged 87, in 2000. She joined the Wolverhampton branch of the Oxford Group, later known as Moral Re-Armament (MRA), in 1935. She became an art teacher at Lichfield Road School in Wednesfield, where she stayed for eight years, and at Brewood Grammar School, both in Staffordshire.
At the Cheshire County Teacher Training College in Crewe, specialising in secondary school art teaching, she was involved with the Student Christian Movement before qualifying in 1932. She won a scholarship to Chester City Grammar School, where she was keen on hockey and tennis, and after leaving she did two years of unpaid apprentice teaching at St John's School in Chester, Cheshire.
According to Ben Thompson, the editor of an anthology of Whitehouse-related letters published in 2012, "From. Others see her more positively and believe she was attempting to halt a decline in what they perceived as Britain's moral standards. Her critics have accused her of being a highly censorious, bigoted figure, and her traditional moral convictions brought her into direct conflict with advocates of the sexual revolution, feminism, children's rights and LGBT rights. Whitehouse's campaigns continue to divide opinion. Another private prosecution was against the director of the play, The Romans in Britain, which had been performed at the National Theatre. She initiated a successful private prosecution against Gay News on the grounds of blasphemous libel, the first such case for more than 50 years. During the 1970s she broadened her activities and was a leading figure in the Nationwide Festival of Light, a Christian campaign that gained mass support for a period. As a result, she was often treated as a figure of fun. The following year she founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, using it as a platform to criticise the BBC for what she perceived as a lack of accountability and excessive use of bad language and portrayals of sex and violence in its programmes.
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She became a public figure via the Clean-Up TV pressure group, established in 1964, in which she was the most prominent figure. Whitehouse became an art teacher, at the same time becoming involved in evangelical Christian groups such as the Student Christian Movement (which became increasingly more liberal leading up to, and after, a 1928 split with the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) and Moral Re-Armament. Her motivation derived from her traditional Christian beliefs, her aversion to the rapid social and political changes in British society of the 1960s, and her work as a teacher of sex education.
A hard-line social conservative, she was termed a reactionary by her socially liberal opponents. She was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the BBC. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE ( née Hutcheson 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and conservative activist.