In 2015, the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex “marriage” in Obergefell v. Hodges. In the eight years since, American culture has increasingly accepted revisionist views of gender and marriage. The new sexual orthodoxy was a long time in the making, as Carl Trueman demonstrates persuasively in his much-discussed book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution. Still, orthodox evangelicals and other moral traditionalists have been left reeling from how quickly the world is changing around us.
For a growing number of progressive politicians, libertine celebrities, and “woke” corporations, mere acceptance of the new sexual orthodoxy is not enough. These influencers and powerbrokers have fully bought in, and they seek to leverage whatever power they wield to compel affirmation from cultural troglodytes like us who still affirm outdated views of gender, sexuality, and marriage. They believe they’re on the right side of history. In reality, they are the religious crusaders. And their anti-gospel is that traditionalists must convert to the new sexual orthodoxy or die—at least figuratively speaking—via cancellation and ostracization.
Some orthodox believers have responded to the growing decadence of American culture by championing various forms of Christian Nationalism
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