“From going to jail for doing it to going to jail for not approving of it.”
Robert Bork brings up an excellent point in “Slouching Towards Gomorrah.”
He explains the “Durkheim constant,” which is that a community will come to accept lower types of behavior until it becomes standardized. Moynihan called this “defining deviancy downward.” Krauthammer pointed out an odd paradox that, while this is occurring in American culture, there is another effect that is also occurring. He said, as you imply, that while Americans are allowing our moral standard to degrade, those who are degrading our moral standard are not content with just that, so what they are doing is redefining what has traditionally been the accepted moral standard as now being deviant.
If you spank your child, that is a form of abuse.
If you don’t have an agreement in writing from a sexual partner, you can later be accused of rape, and society will back the accuser.
And, as you stated, if you object to homosexuality and especially if you object to same-sex marriage, you are some sort of reclusive, repressed puritan that needs to be ostracized by the enlightened community.
Krauthammer called this paradoxical effect “defining deviancy upward.”
These are the brilliant minds that the left cannot debate, so they use the Alinsky method of ridicule to keep people from listening to them.
Robert Bork brings up an excellent point in “Slouching Towards Gomorrah.”
He explains the “Durkheim constant,” which is that a community will come to accept lower types of behavior until it becomes standardized. Moynihan called this “defining deviancy downward.” Krauthammer pointed out an odd paradox that, while this is occurring in American culture, there is another effect that is also occurring. He said, as you imply, that while Americans are allowing our moral standard to degrade, those who are degrading our moral standard are not content with just that, so what they are doing is redefining what has traditionally been the accepted moral standard as now being deviant.
If you spank your child, that is a form of abuse.
If you don’t have an agreement in writing from a sexual partner, you can later be accused of rape, and society will back the accuser.
And, as you stated, if you object to homosexuality and especially if you object to same-sex marriage, you are some sort of reclusive, repressed puritan that needs to be ostracized by the enlightened community.
Krauthammer called this paradoxical effect “defining deviancy upward.”
These are the brilliant minds that the left cannot debate, so they use the Alinsky method of ridicule to keep people from listening to them.