The author doesn’t seem to grasp the simple fact that pot smoking in private is very different, in a moral sense, from gay marriage and abortion.
Sure, there’s been an erosion of moral values in our society, as a result of the calculated plan by the America-hating cultural marxists of the Frankfurt School and the effects of television. But I’m of the opinion that this erosion is actively supported only on the left. The cultural divide remains.
To believe that views on issues like gun control and interracial marriage are related to the same moral principles as those regarding gay marriage and abortion is sort of dumb.
And to turn a comment by Sarah Palin about pot into the “end of the cultural wars” is just another example of a liberal misunderstanding reality.
Whether or not gay marriage is widely supported doesn’t depend on which political group people have decided to join, or which party they think should oppose it. Or even whether morality can be legislated. The reality of the cultural wars is found in the heart of the individual.
Common sense tells us pot smoking and abortion are not the same thing.
And of course Abortion and Gun Control are two different things but a tolerance for individual choice, even when it tolerates infanticide, is based upon the live and let live attitude anathema to the Left. If we can educate the young to see that tolerating the intolerable is wrong but tolerating individual choice, even when that choie is destructive to the chooser, is the basis for freedom, we will have recaptured a Madisonian America