The struggle over gay rights is what is threatening religious liberty, putting Christian merchants out of business, threatening the tax-exempt status
and accreditation of Christian schools and colleges.”
Rod shares the fears that are now common in Orthodox Christian circles, that because of their views on L. G.B.
“There are people alive today who may live to see the effective death of Christianity within our civilization.”
Rod says it’s futile to keep fighting the culture war, because it’s over.
Today we see a lot of secular purists: the students at Middlebury who want to shout down differing opinions, the
legal activists who want to force Orthodox Christian bakers to work at gay weddings, against their conscience.
rights and religious liberty, especially since Orthodox Jews
and Christians aren’t trying to impose their views on others, merely preserve a space for their witness to a transcendent reality.
One of these is my friend Rod Dreher, whose new book, “The Benedict Option,” is
already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade.
