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The Republican rout in the Battle of Indianapolis provides a snapshot of the correlation of forces in the culture wars.

Faced with a corporate-secularist firestorm, Gov. Mike Pence said Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act would not protect Christian bakers or florists who refuse their services to same-sex weddings. And the white flag went up again.

Politics follows culture. And the cultural revolution of the '60s is triumphant. Looking back, the sweep of the capitulation becomes stark.

First came the plea of atheists not to have their children forced to participate in prayers at school. Fair enough. Americans do not believe in compelling people to do as they disbelieve.

Then followed the demand that no child be exposed to prayers or religious books, including the Bible, nor have any day or week set aside as a holiday if connected to Christianity.

Out went Christmas and Easter. In came winter break and spring break.

No matter what the majority wanted, the minority prevailed, thanks to a Supreme Court whose dictates were never challenged by democratically elected presidents or Congresses.

In the sexual revolution there came first the plea that abortion in extreme cases be decriminalized, then legalized, then subsidized, then declared a right. From crime to constitutional right in two decades!

Soon, same-sex marriages likely will be declared a right hidden in the Constitution and entitled to all the privileges and benefits accorded traditional marriages. Next, those who refuse to provide services to same-sex weddings will become criminals.

Thus does biblical truth become bigotry in America. And the process has been steadily proceeding for generations.

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Jonathan Martin in the New York Times:

The uproar set off by legislation in Indiana and Arkansas that sponsors billed as religious freedom measures not only signaled a revival of the culture wars, but also threw into stark relief the expectations and tensions in the coalitions that now make up the two major political parties.

The contrasting reactions to the proposals Democrats united in opposition, Republicans torn by dissent illustrates how the parties have effectively traded places.

Democrats, for decades a heterogeneous and often fractious amalgam of voters, have become overwhelmingly liberal on cultural issues like gay rights and abortion. Their belief reflects a party now dominated by a socially progressive coalition of millennials, minorities and wealthy, educated whites, many of them secular.

This is not quite right, if you look at the public opinion data.

Yes, Republicans are more divided than Democrats on basic support of same-sex marriage. Heres a graph from a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll:

But Democrats are actually slightly more divided than Republicans on the religious freedom measures. In this Pew survey, Republicans split 68 percent to 28 percent in favor of allowing businesses to refuse services for same-sex couples, while Democrats split 64 percent to 33 percent in favor of requiring business to provide services to all customers.

The other problem is this mixing of same-sex marriage and abortion under the broader label culture wars. (At one point, Martin throws in race under this label, making things even more complicated, but I wont get into that here.) Why shouldnt these issues be linked together?

For one, the politics of same-sex marriage and abortion are completely different. There is growing support for same-sex marriage, driven by generational differences. There is no growing support for abortion (or see here), and very modest differences across generations.

Second, it is not at all clear that Republicans are more divided on abortion than are Democrats. Republicans are more unified behind the label pro-life than Democrats are behind the label pro-choice. Democrats are slightly more unified on the question of whether abortion should be legal or illegal in all or most cases. Republicans are more unified on the question of whether abortion should be legal through 2o weeks vs. 24 weeks of pregnancy.

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