I think our generation of conservatives and /or christians (those 40 and over) are just not used to having to explain , defend and define everything we do at our place of work. The older you get, the less accustomed we are to engaging in these rhetorical street fights that seem to be happening everywhere.
The internet has helped many of us become aware of this curious ‘sport-hating’ or ganging up that’s going on now. Even ten years ago, if someone said, ‘Oh, the Governor better not pass that bill, because Nestles, Johnson and Johnson plus H&RBlock say they won’t do business in that state, I would have been shocked.
We are still coming to terms with just how serious, how caustic this trend has become.
I remember a comment by Mary Catherine Hamm on the O'Reilly show about a year or two ago concerning this.
The reason Republicans and Conservative leaders in general appear so weak and feckless when it comes to engaging Liberals is that this new generation of extreme Liberal is so intense and aggressive that they (Conservatives) haven't even come to terms with how to deal with them yet.
The Liberal movement now is so organized, motivated, and aggressive that the Conservative movement doesn't even know how to respond to them. Do you think that 1000 year old corpse Mitch McConnell knows how to deal with thousands of rabid Liberals on an internet smear campaign?
Today's Liberal threatens to literally murder us if we don't actively support homosexuality. The Conservative response to that is to have a policy debate.