You can’t call them opportunists. Starting just before the Supreme Court heard arguments calling them bigots—and ever since the Court’s DOMA ruling turned that libel into law—religious conservatives have been busy arguing about the worth of their own arguments.
Many, in particular, have questioned the value of rational defenses of marriage, and, indeed, all moral philosophy. A recent post by Joe Carter is the latest in a long (ecumenical) series, including contributions by Al Mohler, Alan Jacobs, Peter Leithart, Michael Potemra, Greg Forster, Samuel Goldman, Thaddeus Kozinski, and Rod Dreher. Most prominent are interventions by David Bentley Hart and by Jody Bottum.
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