In Defense of Flesh and Blood

Joseph Sobran

The Reagan landslide means the time is ripe for real action on the so-called “social” issues. We used to debate about bread-and-butter issues. It is testimony to the aggression of liberalism against the culture that we now debate about flesh-and-blood issues. Abortion, homosexuality, school prayer, and the like used to be matters of consensus. Liberalism has made them matters of contention, and hypocritically pleads for the social peace it has done its best to rupture.