Tom Edsall has some thoughts in the latest Atlantic on the politics of morality. Usually lugubrious about Democratic prospects, Edsall points to declining religiosity as measured by self-reported church attendance (between 1972 and 2000, the proportion reporting never going to church tripled to 33%) as good news for the Democrats, and thinks that Republicans put themselves at risk if they make themselves “the party of sexual repression.”
From his word processor to God’s in-box.