Dreher writes (excerpt):
The source of our culture war is conflicting visions of what it means to be free and what it means to be an American - and even what it means to be fully human. More concretely, as Princeton's Robert George has written, they have to do mainly "with sexuality, the transmitting and taking of human life, and the place of religion and religiously informed moral judgment in public life."
Because the cultural left and cultural right hold to irreconcilable orthodoxies on these questions, we find scant cultural consensus. That's life in America. Unless we become a homogenous country, we will continue to struggle to live together, staying true to our deepest beliefs while respecting the liberty of others to stay true to their own. . .
What irritates conservatives is the liberals' groundless conceit
that they fight from a values-neutral position, while the right seeks
to impose its norms on others. Nonsense. Marriage was a settled issue
until liberals began using courts to impose their moral vision on (so
far) an unwilling majority. Who fired the first shot there? . . [more . . .]