Featured Image: “Culture War podium” by Gage Skidmore is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped and modified
Six Catholics, 2 Jews, and an Episcopalian walk into a bar… The American Bar Association, that is. See, though this sounds like the start of an incredibly funny joke, it’s really just the makeup of the current members of the United States Supreme Court. OK, I stole that joke, but I think it’s relevant to my post. Yesterday, both Kentucky and Arizona just approved new abortion bills. Florida just passed Parental Rights in Education. Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia was almost purely driven on his anti-CRT and mask mandates in schools. So, it begs the question: Is the culture war on abortion, CRT & LGBTQ worth it?
I think the progressive left is terrified that the answer is “yes”. Obviously, we are likely to get a new extreme voice on the Supreme Court. We have several wobbly conservatives on the bench and “the Left” is screaming for Clarence Thomas’s head before the do-over of Roe v. Wade. I want the Supreme Court to be an arbiter on the law, always. I don’t want court activism in their rulings. But I also hope they recognize the monster under the bed isn’t real. The American people, in general, are telling DC and their local politicians that they don’t want social extremism in either direction. They should proceed accordingly.
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It is beyond time for the GOP to realize that we have been losing the culture war and our country one apathetic and cowardly politician at a time. Some brave leaders around the country are showing that time is ripe to push and take back our children from the depraved world we gave them to. We don’t need to go all hyper-Christian on them like we did in the 80’s, but we can certainly find some middle ground to admit that we are all sinners and have fallen in this world.
Poor choices are made in bedroom. Many of us know and love gay folks and couples. We can acknowledge that some people believe they are in the wrong body WITHOUT suggesting it is ok to promote such thinking in our classrooms. We can and should keep promoting equality over equity. Many of these new bills are going to get pushed to the Supreme Court. Some are already on the docket. I hope SCOTUS can read the tea leaves and be as courageous as these state legislatures. The culture war is worth fighting. I hope they weigh in accordingly.
