But even if they where still required they would hardly amount to "a conservative culturally authoritarian government".
And the power behind imposing those requirement, or similar requirements, is much smaller than the power behind the imposition currently in question. The greater danger is from those with more power, not from those with less. The more power isn't just a matter of Democrats being in control of the white house and half of congress, or of the specific people in charge, this is getting imposed with divided control, required school prayer in schools isn't going to happen even with Republicans in control.
Emboldened, they would change it back, reducing current liberty.
I think that's a very remote risk, and one that to the extent it exists at all, might be increased more by a loss on this issue than a victory. Those on the borderline of supporting such an attempt, can perhaps be persuaded by "live and let live", to the extent that's trampled on you increase the force that might not live and let live on these other issues. You make it more and more a struggle for supremacy, and less and less about trying to get along and find solutions that are at least barely acceptable to all, or at least to most. |
