Gay okay: conservatives have become strangely tolerant of homosexual activity. They should not be afraid to defy the Zeitgeist

National Review, Sept 1, 1998 by David Klinghoffer

But there is also danger in a nation's detaching itself on this or that point. A moral tradition is an organic whole, not just a laundry list of dos and don'ts. If you hope anyone will take it seriously, it requires internal coherence. Our own tradition proceeds from either a great transcendent truth (as believers say) or a great transcendent myth (as skeptics say) but in any event a single transcendent something: the idea of Revelation. As with growing certainty parents and other adults tell kids that the Biblical injunction against homosexual intercourse amounts to mere bigotry, those kids will just be thinking logically if they come to doubt other tenets of the tradition, which are said to arise from the same source. This can lead only to chaos. Conservatives who drop the Bible from their rhetoric like a yellow Velo backpack confirm parents, and the culture generally, in their error.

How real is the danger? Like the Canaanites of yore, we may have the opportunity to find out.