In Ferguson they got a bunch of white Republicans in office as a result.
In Houston they got the Red Guards of the Sexual Revolution, out to control the speech of pastors in their churches.
80% of life is just showing up.
For many years the right has warned that this is what it would come to, actual persecution and legal suppression of Christian teaching at odds with the new, secular morality of sex.
They have warned that, having freed the country from imposition of the Christian sexual morality through the law as far as they have, the next step for the sexual revolutionaries is to force upon the country their own.
Can churches teach that homosexuality is wrong and deplored by God as part of the routine teaching of Christian sexual morals in sermons, Sunday School, and church-related schools, colleges, and universities?
Can they teach that God requires us to marry, one man to one woman, for life, and raise families?
That God disapproves any sexual activity outside that context?
Can they teach that abortion at any point in a pregnancy is wrong, sinful, and even murder?
Can they teach that abortion or homosexuality ought to be punished by law?
Can they teach that divorce ought not to be allowed in the law?
Can they teach any of these things in seminaries and divinity schools?
Can parents teach such things to their children?
As of today, I think, the answer is mostly affirmative.
As of today.
Update.
While we're on the subject, more than one secularist is alarmed and outraged that nearly half of Americans asked express belief in creationism as a correct account of the origin of species.
These people are concerned to keep any jot of religion out of the public schools and to keep the kids in them.
Some have suggested that private schools be required to teach evolution in order to gain accreditation, or be forbidden to teach creationism.
And then there are the questions of direct government aid money and what conditions schools have to meet to receive any.
The country has long since got used to the idea that the feds can control admissions policy and the content of education in these ways and even by direct judicial order, during decades of battle first over mandatory segregation and then over mandatory race-mixing.
Rather than comply with an adoptions policy based on the new secular ethics Catholic Charities closed down its adoption services in some cities, as I recall.
Things that make you wonder.
For many years the right has warned that this is what it would come to, actual persecution and legal suppression of Christian teaching at odds with the new, secular morality of sex.
They have warned that, having freed the country from imposition of the Christian sexual morality through the law as far as they have, the next step for the sexual revolutionaries is to force upon the country their own.
Can churches teach that homosexuality is wrong and deplored by God as part of the routine teaching of Christian sexual morals in sermons, Sunday School, and church-related schools, colleges, and universities?
Can they teach that God requires us to marry, one man to one woman, for life, and raise families?
That God disapproves any sexual activity outside that context?
Can they teach that abortion at any point in a pregnancy is wrong, sinful, and even murder?
Can they teach that abortion or homosexuality ought to be punished by law?
Can they teach that divorce ought not to be allowed in the law?
Can they teach any of these things in seminaries and divinity schools?
Can parents teach such things to their children?
As of today, I think, the answer is mostly affirmative.
As of today.
Update.
While we're on the subject, more than one secularist is alarmed and outraged that nearly half of Americans asked express belief in creationism as a correct account of the origin of species.
These people are concerned to keep any jot of religion out of the public schools and to keep the kids in them.
Some have suggested that private schools be required to teach evolution in order to gain accreditation, or be forbidden to teach creationism.
And then there are the questions of direct government aid money and what conditions schools have to meet to receive any.
The country has long since got used to the idea that the feds can control admissions policy and the content of education in these ways and even by direct judicial order, during decades of battle first over mandatory segregation and then over mandatory race-mixing.
Rather than comply with an adoptions policy based on the new secular ethics Catholic Charities closed down its adoption services in some cities, as I recall.
Things that make you wonder.
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