Cathy Young writes that red-staters aren’t as scary as they’re made out to be, nor does the right have a monopoly on “moral bullying.”

Here’s a point that could stand to be made more often:

In many ways, the cultural conservatives want to do no more than roll back the clock to a fairly recent American past (on such issues as abortion or prayer in public schools) or to stop impending change (on same-sex marriage).

Liberals sometimes say that conservatives want to institute a “theocracy” (some of the more hysterical ones say they already have). But was the America of the 1950s a theocracy? (Hint: that’s a rhetorical question.)