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I disagree with the notion that there are just two sides to the culture war or that victory means that our culture would have only one viewpoint on most issues. While there are extremes on each side, I still think and hope that most Americans are not on any fringe. I'd like to see a victory that would result in a dominant culture that was largely traditional without being overbearing on superficial matters. I'd like to see a culture where traditional heterosexual marriage is honored as the ideal, but I don't want to be the victim of discrimination because I'm single and likely never to be married. Our schools should not applaud or enable homosexuality or promiscuity, but nosy neighbors who try to dig dirt on someone's private life should be shunned for not knowing how to mind their own business. We don't need people who can't abide public displays of a nativity scene at Christmas, but neither do we need people are rude to those who don't share their faith. A society with the right mix of modesty, self-respect, and tolerance can be a good society, but those sides of the culture war that want to use one of these virtues to destroy the others are the sides that need to lose.

Bill

I agree with your sentiments and most of what you say, though I do think that society has the right to endorse marriage and reward those who take part in it.

But from my own biased point of view, it seems that it is those on the Left who seem hell-bent on making harmony impossible. It seems that conservatives living in liberal areas have for the most part accepted that their views are in the minority, and can live with it. In conservative areas, however, there is always some malcontent who can't tolerate expressions of the majority. That's why, for example, you have Court rulings that bar a prayer over the speakers before a high school football game in Texas.