Catholic political activism is at a crossroads. For about 40 years the pro-life and pro-family movements had a home within the Republican Party, while a small minority continued to fight for the soul of the Democratic Party.
Two Supreme Court rulings, one inventing a right to same-sex civil marriage and one repealing the invention of a right to abortion, have caused both political parties to shift to the left on the social issues on which we have historically fought. New cultural issues have emerged, some of them the results of battles previously won or lost.
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