I’m pleased to publish this guest essay from Dr. Paul D. Miller.
What was social conservatism, and why did evangelicals adopt it as their political creed? What has become of the movement under President Donald J. Trump?
Politically, social conservatism came to mean, above all, opposition to abortion and gay marriage. Those two stances were the rubber-meets-the-road implications of the “ism,” the irreducible praxis of what social conservatism looked like in action. But why? What was beneath and behind opposition to the public policy consequences of the Sexual Revolution? What were the ideas driving efforts to protect traditional marriage and human life?
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