The End of the Moral Majority (opens in new tab)

New Politics for a New Age The travails of the pro-life movement augur for a new kind of politics for religious conservatives: prudentialist-minority. It is minority politics in that it recognizes that their moral vision is not presently accepted by the majority of the public. It is prudentialist in that rather than taking an all-or-nothing stand on moral absolutes, it accepts that in a fallen world, politics will always fall short of a perfect moral standard. It asks what the most reasonable...