Granted, sometimes there existed a solid reason for some of the rules. One can make a strong case, for example, for keeping sex - and especially children - within the confines of a loving, committed marriage.
Um, this is actually one of the 10 Commandments...one does not simply say "Thou shall not commit adultery" is a "rule."
This piece came out after Trump won but it remains THE best in explaining the new left. This writer's thesis is similar to our Town Hall writer, except this guy is correct:
Liberals have always accused social conservatives of bringing religion into politics, but liberals have done something far worse, and far more radical: They have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.
The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa... Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic...for them, politics is the means to secular salvation...political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.
The most important difference is that fundamentalist Baptists, indeed any literalist religious sect, Christian or not, exercises no real political authority, financial power, or social influence. The “Woke” culture has immense social influence, is a strong force in corporate boardrooms, dominates the Democratic Party, and largely intimidates the Republican Party into silence.