“Gays, guns put right on defense”

The culture wars are making a comeback, but this time around, social conservatives find themselves in an unfamiliar position: playing defense.

I’m not sure that the culture wars ever left, but when can you say that social conservatives are ever NOT on the defensive? They have had successes, and failures. Certainly right now, you can say they have suffered several recent setbacks and hold little influence in the halls of power.

But are social cons ever on the offensive? What radical social innovations do they have in store? If anything, their arguments are at an inherent disadvantage as they amount to saying “No” to a rising tide of opposition. It is not very glamorous to “[stand] athwart history, yelling Stop.”