Mon Sep 11, 2023 – 11:29 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — How did the LGBT movement conquer America? Well, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, slowly—and then all at once. Which is to say that the country we see now—where once-radical ideologies are the fiercely defended dogmas of half the American political spectrum and are part of the formal public education curriculum in many states—endured many small changes before it became apparent that a once-mocked movement was now running the show.
Carl Trueman, author of the surprise academic bestseller The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, broke this down in a fascinating essay earlier this year titled “America’s LGBTQ establishment.” An excerpt:
How do you take over an empire? That is a question that I used as a title for a lecture I gave each year in my Ancient Christianity class. The answer is simple to state but somewhat more difficult to achieve in practice: You simply need to control time and space.
Christianity achieved this in the Roman empire during the fourth century, a century that opened with the last great imperial
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