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Until now, most of the conservative strategy in LGBT has been defensive ("Please don't make it illegal for us to think the way we think the way we think, and speak the way we speak, on sex and gender issues.") But now states are considering legislation directly advocating natural sex identity --- male and female --- as positive goods which should be taught and treated as socially normative and central to the functioning of a healthy "common good."

In other words, not just carving out little enclaves for ourselves ("Please let our church school insist on Biblical standards for identity and behavior") but advancing the sexual binary (male/female) as objectively better for individuals, for societies and therefore for the "common good."

It's about re-centering on the normal and natural as contrasted to the deviant. Anyhow, that's how I'm reading it. What do you think?

Note: I'm posting this in issues and activism rather than Religion Forum because it is a matter of public policy, not a matter of particular religious doctrines.

GOOD.

We have to take back the compass!

I know home schooling is great and so are private schools.

But neither are realistic for the VAST, VAST majority of people and I see here people folding the cards all the time.

Since when is that the answer?

We treat dems like gods that can get things done that we can’t and so we must run from them and hide in private schools or our homes.

We need to fight and win the fight for making pubic schools sane again.

Heck, we’re paying for them either way.

I think this is good and necessary. The left should not be allowed to act like it has the civil rights high ground when it is actually enforcing authoritarianism. The left wants all values to be subjective - but only in the way they find useful. If the left can get people to say there is no difference between male and female, they can condition people to believe any lie. This will serve the purposes of any future “progressive” dictatorship.

Many now speak of orienting our society toward the common good, and about using government power to pursue that good.

When the Constitution was written, there was no need to use Federal coercive power to define "the good", since the basic JudeoChristian value system permeated society, and each state had an official church. Some of the individual colonies/states even levied taxes to support the official church, or compelled attendance.

Since the 1960s SCOTUS elevated atheism to the same status under law as belief in Nature's God, and the passage of the Kennedy's naively liberal Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, our doom as a "multicultural" society has been sealed. To have a common value system again, the unorganized free people of the "Land of the Free" would have to resort to Federal laws to coerce it, fight the ACLU and rogue judges, and vanquish well-funded groups like CAIR, ACLU, Open Society and other atheist organizations at the Supreme Court.

Short of a widespread Christian revival, we are toast. Trump can restore the economy, but the rot remains without God as the head of our nation.

LGBT activists uphold a positive vision of good and evil, one which has proven far more captivating to the American imagination than conservatives’ classical liberal response.

I would say they hold a materialist vision, a transactionalist vision, or a secular absolutist vision, but not a positive vision.