Monday, November 08, 2004

Moral Values and the Democratic Party

Saturday's Wall Street Journal editorial helpfully summarizes the divide between Republicans and Democrats with regard to the moral values debate. (I've added bullets to break down their summaries.)

This is a Democratic Party in which

  • nostalgia for tradition is too often considered racism,
  • opposition to gay marriage is biogotry,
  • misgiving about abortion is misogyny,
  • Christian fundamentalism is like Islamic fundamentalism,
  • discussion about gender roles is sexism,
  • and confidence in America's global purpose is cultural imperialism.

To put it mildly, this is not the values system to which most Americans adhere.