“If we can’t impose a particular morality on people who don’t share that morality, then why did you impose your morality on the bigoted restaurant owner? This is not a difficult question to understand, and I am willing to wait for an answer” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 137).
The Headwaters of Our Confusion
“Because we tried to eliminate the sin of racial prejudice in public spaces without grasping that central distinction [between a sin and a crime], we have ended up mandating the commission of sin in public spaces. Essaying to stamp out one sin, we have made another sin, one that is far worse than racial prejudice, …
Back When We Could Carry a Tune
“It is now avant-garde jazz played with the fists, but America used to play its songs in C Major” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 134).
Or Mayo
“So, for the present, now that we are no longer in the grip of ‘anti-gay h8,’ water is commanded to flow uphill, by order of the Supreme Court, and triangles must have four sides, by order of Congress. On top of that, the president has recently signed an executive order determining that ham and cheese …
Meum & Tuum
“We . . . live in a time when the social justice gimme, gimme graspers have a poorer understanding of property rights than a dog with a chew toy does” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 129).
Dialing Way Back
“Because there is absolutely no way to get in with the cool kids so long as you remain in any way in clear opposition to the sexual revolution, they have begun the process of dialing everything way back” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 128).
Veterans or Deserters
“When it comes to the culture wars, distinguish between those who are tired from being on the right side, and those who are tired of being on the right side” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 126).
Quite the Hailstorm
“Evangelicals are nice, there is no getting around it. It is our besetting sin. That means about the worst thing you can tell us is that we are being mean to somebody. Maybe that meanness is turning someone away from Jesus. Our niceness is the steering wheel that we always want to put our critics …
And It Happened So Quickly
“Liberals have become what they have always professed to detest: bigots” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 117).
But Their Own They Tolerate Quite Well
“Secularism is incoherent, like a plane made out of spherical cubes. What has our tolerant state done? Well, they have outlawed discrimination. They are intolerant of intolerance, which means, in effect, that the only intolerance they will tolerate is their own, and this on the condition that nobody ever admits out loud what they are …