Dreher

Students who are fired up by social justice issues, including race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. are “well-catechized.” Given the chance to write on topics of their choice in the required composition classes, they take to their politics with energy and zeal and a good amount of firepower to help them. It’s not well-researched, not deep reading, but they are building on what they have read. Even though my part of the US is considered a Christian- and Catholic-dominant area, in comparison the Christian and Catholic students do not write about anything remotely faith-related (even though I say all perspectives are welcome), not even from a secular conservative viewpoint. The two reasons for that are 1) everyone knows how unpopular that would be, and 2) Catholics and Evangelical/Pentecostal Christians seem not to be catechized in the basics of their faith, much less conservatism, much less the growing threat to religious freedom. It’s not on their radar. They are completely unaware of it.