Tuesday, October 28, 2008

What's Really at Stake in the Gay Marriage Debate? Part Four

http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_print.php?id=2672

[Albert Mohler] 28 oct 2008--Writing more than twenty years ago, Thomas Sowell described the basic worldview clash we observe today as a struggle between "constrained" and "unconstrained" visions of humanity. The fundamental distinction between these two visions is moral, but the thrust of each is ideological. The constrained vision may be considered basically conservative, while the unconstrained vision is basically liberal, in modern terms.

There is great wisdom in Sowell's analysis, and in his book, The Conflict of Visions. But the greatest achievement of this book is Sowell's insistence that political struggles have ideological origins.

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