In my view, America shrugging off the Christian outlook on sex has been and continues to be mostly to the good, though I think liberals have overdone abortion and feminism and have been way too unscrupulous about how they win political battles.
They have unforgivably trashed the constitution and done much to ruin the integrity of the political process.
Mostly in a good cause, yes, but still.
But it looks to me that Dreher isn't quite getting how this works.
I don't think he sees the key role of people who have not abandoned historic Christianity and the traditional denominations.
I don't think he sees the key role of people who have not abandoned historic Christianity and the traditional denominations.
Lots of people support the liberals on sex issues, head to head with the clergy and the Christian right.
And there just aren't enough of the unchurched or "nones" for that to happen without significant support from people who are not nones, people who show
up in the pews but choose not to let the churches write their writ into law.
They may agree, for example, that abortion and much else is wrong, but they want it to remain their own choice to do them or not, all the same.
Dreher opines,
It seems that when
people decide that historically normative Christianity is wrong about sex, they
typically don’t find a church that endorses their liberal views.
They quit going to
church altogether.
And that is likely true.
And it means some people who stay in the pews yet vote against the right and with the liberals on these issues, just as I say, voting for the legal right to do wrong.
We couldn't possibly win without them, these Christians who want the freedom to be bad Christians.
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