In Mark Steyn’s Death of the Family he makes a penetrating point.
Modern Family works well on TV, less so in the rusting double-wides of decrepit mill towns where, very quickly, the accumulated social capital of two centuries is drained, and too much is too wrecked. In Europe, where dependency, decadence, and demographic decline are extinguishing some of the oldest nations on earth, a successor population is already in place in the restive Muslim housing projects. With their vibrant multicultural attitudes to feminism and homosexuality, there might even be a great sitcom in it: Pre-Modern Family — and, ultimately, post-Modern.
Let me paraphrase. The reason that homosexual marriage is being legislated and court-ordered into existence is because a lot of young and even middle-aged Americans lack a vibrant belief system in anything other than that “values” are out of date. But, and this is a big but, other groups do not lack such moral … let’s call it “flexibility.” Muslims may not be the dominant ethnic group in the US as they have become in some major European cities, but they are growing. And there are large and growing sub-sets of America that have belief systems which, if you transgress, can get you killed. In those areas the flamboyant gays of Modern Family simply cannot exist.
It’s a truism that the weak are eventually conquered by the strong, and this applies to the moral as well as to the physical sphere. Defenders of marriage few and far between because the idea that marriage needed defense was once thought to be absurd.
Homosexuals may find that the castle they have captured has become a worthless shell. And then they may find that the culture they created is much deadlier than the one they left behind.
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