I found Gallagher's thoughts on Putin's Russia novel and arresting. Is she way off the beam or could she be correct? On other matters (such as traditional marriage) she is spot on. Is Putin really fighting the relativism of the West? Gallagher writes:
Friends are sending me copies of Putin’s speech. It is extremely clear to me that Putin is trying to create a Russian resistance to Western decadence, melding a revived Russian Christianity with Islamic moral values to create an alternative to the emerging non-pluralism of the West.
The West’s new pluralism was in evidence recently at a public university in Ireland when it kicked out the venerable Legion of Mary for distributing “anti-gay” pamphlets suggesting that Catholics should dedicate themselves to a life of interior chastity and which included the line “I’m a child of God, don’t call me gay.”
The university explained: “NUIG has a pluralist ethos and will not condone the production and dissemination of any material by students which discriminates against other students. Discrimination or implied or direct harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation and/or religion, is contrary to Irish and European law.”
But you don’t have to look any further than the Center for American Progress for the American version, in which panelists agree that religious-liberty exemptions constitute “slavery.” . . .
Me: That Western elite thought has caved in to accepting, and even celebrating, homosexual behavior is widely recognized. Is Russia self-c0nsciously resisting Western decadence as Gallagher suggests? If true, is that not remarkable?