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