I just realized that the recent spasm of Christian moralism (typified by the issue of pharmacists declaring they won’t fill prescriptions for birth control on religious grounds not to mention all of our imperial cowboying around in the Middle East)is just the latest manifestation of “do it if it feels good” 60’s style asshattery.
See the discussion in j_alan_b for more on the pharmacists.
Ok, here’s my logic.
1. The Boomers are old fogies now and have discovered that they don’t really love all mankind like they said they did in their 20’s.
2. As a natural consequence of aging, things from the past look better and better the farther away we get from them. Therefore, many of these same Boomers are turning again to the traditional religions of their youths.
3. Due to social and technological advances and the passage of time, people other than white Christian men are flexing their political muscles.
4. This is scary to white Christian men (even ones who once called themselves Moonbeam).
5. Social structures in the USA no longer support institutionalized asshattery to women, homosexuals, foreigners and minorities.
6. Traditional Christianity is still big on the white Christian man, and vice versa.
7. Supporting “traditional Christian values” is not only morally sound, but gives the finger to big government, Hollywood liberals and the afforementioned women, homosexuals, foreigners and minorities, the new “system”.
8. Making the white Christian men radicals again. F— the system, damn activist judges abrogating our freedom of religion.
9. Just on the other side of the social divide from their 60’s pot-smoking, “free love” selves.
10. Therefore, do it if it feels good. Let’s save some souls, dude.
And people wonder why I can’t sleep at night. “The Handmaid’s Tale” anyone?
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