Core Institutions
If the principles of the natural law in social conservatism teach us anything, it’s that society has to have some baseline moral consensus for society to have any long-term vision for perpetuating itself. Sadly, right now we are staring down the secular abyss in our society. When we’re looking at these core social conservative institutions that society needs to thrive, we’re seeing tremendous damage being done to them.
When we look at abortion on demand, 60+ million Americans have been killed through abortion. When we’re looking at the redefinition of marriage, the fact that we don’t even have a common consensus on what marriage is anymore or what constitutes the natural family. I think that’s extremely problematic and destabilizing. And then I think when you look at the question of What is a man? or What is a woman? around the transgender issue, this conflict is demonstrating—to go back to use the term from C. S….
