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We, the right, screwed up.

It is not a partisan blog, more like a lament, looking back. I look back, and review the decades that have gone by that I actually remember.  In the 80s, the religious right was in its glory, advancing morality in law.  This was a direct response to the free love, and the me eras of the 60s and 70s. Crusades against abortion (okay, actually, I am still behind this one, especially since it was  revealed today that many of these Planned Parenthood body shops were not using ebay, but Amazon to market their wares).  The defeat of the ERA.  Trying to enforce morality on television, and other movies.  In the 90s, the grumblings began regarding gay marriage.  With the issue of transgender bathrooms succeeding today, the ERA, while defeated, essentially has come to be everything its detractors feared. All the while, the left was pointing its fingers, changing the culture, using the courts to chip a little here, and a little there.  Effecting a cultu...