IS ANDREW RIGHT? PART 2: Maggie Gallagher
The argument from despair was also the implicit argument made on every single sexually and sociall conservative issue since the 1970s. Once the "taboos" fall, there is no case for traditional Christian or Jewish sexual ethics and the young will defect en masse. Certainly, the right to have sex however you want, and get rid of any inconvenient babies your bodies produce, is no doubt rather powerfully attractive.
But rather than fading away, we are seeing the next generation is actually growing more traditional on almost every sexual matter, except gay issues. Young people today are 20 points more opposed to divorce than they were 20 years ago, more prolife, more likely to be virgins, etc. Women are more likely to decide to stay home with their kids than they were 20 years ago, men and women express a greater commitment to marital permanence than they did 20 years ago. All the trends that we were told were irreversibly part of "modern life" are beginning to mov in the opposite of their predicted direction. The myth inevitability of the culturally liberal elite's idea of "social progress" is already exploding, for those who care to look.
That we are losing the next generation on the gay marriage issue is certainly true. That this is ineivtable and irreversible is not.
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