Also, I think that in the GWB days there was a reasonably coherent conservative Christian vision about the future of the country. You could read about it from Richard John Neuhaus in First Things; Ross Douthat is like the ghost of this POV.
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Also, I think that in the GWB days there was a reasonably coherent conservative Christian vision about the future of the country. You could read about it from Richard John Neuhaus in First Things; Ross Douthat is like the ghost of this POV.
They weren't wrong that the social forces that have made gay marriage mainstream also worked against the family. I'm gay and I want kids and I'm annoyed that my cultural world regards kids as an expensive luxury.
The problem is that only Mormons actually have a family-centered culture. I can understand conservative attitudes towards gay people and women when they come from people who actually pull off the trick of having big happy families.
I genuinely respect the minivan! The Trump phenomenon seems to have proved the Mormons were sincere about the traditional family, but that Evangelical leaders are mostly hucksters driven by greed, prejudice and resentment.
Also, I think that in the GWB days there was a reasonably coherent conservative Christian vision about the future of the country. You could read about it from Richard John Neuhaus in First Things; Ross Douthat is like the ghost of this POV.
They weren't wrong that the social forces that have made gay marriage mainstream also worked against the family. I'm gay and I want kids and I'm annoyed that my cultural world regards kids as an expensive luxury.
The problem is that only Mormons actually have a family-centered culture. I can understand conservative attitudes towards gay people and women when they come from people who actually pull off the trick of having big happy families.
I genuinely respect the minivan! The Trump phenomenon seems to have proved the Mormons were sincere about the traditional family, but that Evangelical leaders are mostly hucksters driven by greed, prejudice and resentment.