Rod Dreher, apostle of liberty. Not.

Liberals control the culture

Don’t be so sure.

Not everyone who mocks religion or rejects religious authorities is a liberal.

Not everyone who refuses to comply with the hyper-repressed morality of Christian officialdom is a liberal.

Not every murderer, rapist, extortionist, thief, or criminal of any sort is a liberal.

Not every director, writer, or actor whose characters are criminals is a criminal, himself.

Not every science-fiction writer is an alien.

Many of Hollywood’s most notorious inhabitants are not liberals, at all.

Ours is indeed a culture that has largely, though by no means fully, escaped the repressive power of the clergy, thrust aside by the sexual and cultural revolutions of the 20th Century with massive and indispensable aid from the Warren Court and its ideological – that is to say, liberal – descendants.

And all of that is to the good.

But it does not mean our culture is controlled by, populated by, or exclusively inhabited by liberals.

If that were so we would have no fear for this fall's election, and perhaps no opponents!

It only means it is not controlled by Christian clergy exercising their repressive power through the law.

Note well what Dreher and those with whom he sympathizes actually want, with all their whining.

They want people to be made to stop laughing at them.

They want people to be forced to at least pretend to respect them.

They want people’s expression to be subject to a clerical censorship insulating them from not only obvious unbelief but disrespect.

They want culture high and low to be made to conform to Christianity’s stupid and fantastically repressive morality.

And maybe more than anything else they want sex driven out of TV, films, plays, music, and all our culture, back into hiding where it was in the good old days of, say, the American 1950s.

Or maybe the 1650s, in New England.

You want to a better view of what they want?

Check out the burgeoning Christian fiction and Christian inspiration sections at your local B&N, whose space is otherwise more and more taken up with toys and games and less and less with books.

And you, reader?

As for me, I want no such thing.

As for Dreher, post-Christian sexuality in America just fills him with disgust and loathing.

And shame, he implies.

And maybe fear.

'Sexual Careers' in Late Roman America

As I said.

Boo, hoo.

Oh, and a tip of the hat to KOS.

Rod Dreher, American Taliban.