Dreher

My mothers side (particularly she and her sisters) are pretty much the textbook East Coast Irish Catholic family that is quite well off through the fruits of the GI bill with my Granddad, then never left the Democratic party (or at least questioned it) after it took up the baton of 60’s liberation movements, and now lets it dictate their worldview. They are the people who “stood with Margie”, the grade school theology teacher who was fired for being openly in a homosexual relationship. They care more about banning smoking and McDonalds than abortion and pornography. I literally asked my mom over spring break if she dissents from even one aspect of the Democratic party platform, and she could not name a single one. Her answer was that “the GOP just has become so radical” (of course, she didn’t think it was any bit less “radical” before the rise of the tea party). The point is, particularly in post 60’s American Catholicism, politics informs their faith before the faith informs their politics. And this applies to some of the Murrayites also, in my opinion, with their fetishization of markets and the founders.