They didn't, though. The religious right was fighting a different culture war than the one the irreligious right is fighting.
The culture war the religious right was fighting was against a conception of sex and sexuality that enshrined the autonomy of the individual and in-the-moment pleasure over personal responsibility and self-control.…
They didn't, though. The religious right was fighting a different culture war than the one the irreligious right is fighting.
The culture war the religious right was fighting was against a conception of sex and sexuality that enshrined the autonomy of the individual and in-the-moment pleasure over personal responsibility and self-control. The culture war the irreligious right is waging is against a conception of identity that denies individuality and reduces people to their identity checkboxes. In an individualistic culture like the United States, it's not hard to figure out why the former would have a harder time of things than the latter.
They didn't, though. The religious right was fighting a different culture war than the one the irreligious right is fighting.
The culture war the religious right was fighting was against a conception of sex and sexuality that enshrined the autonomy of the individual and in-the-moment pleasure over personal responsibility and self-control. The culture war the irreligious right is waging is against a conception of identity that denies individuality and reduces people to their identity checkboxes. In an individualistic culture like the United States, it's not hard to figure out why the former would have a harder time of things than the latter.