Review: Eberstadt's 'It's Dangerous to Believe' Part 1 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The fact that Chaput, Heritage and the National Review laud the book are enough for me to say not to read it or bother with a review.
Public religiousity is always suspect because it is its own reward. That noted religious radical, Yeshua Bar Josse said it best - pray in the quitet of a locked room so that only the Father can hear you.
The problem with the protection of marriage argument is that the argument was thin. Even canon law recognizes marriages that can yield no children, as long as their is functionality. You can't make a bad argument from the pseudo-science of modern Catholic natural law sexual ethics and expect not to be laughed out of the court room, since such is based on reason alone rather than the facts on the ground.
What Eberstadt is missing about the fifties was not religious liberty, it was religion taking liberties, i.e. religious power. That kind of power is now gone and good riddance to it. Nowadays, because it is linked with the pro-life political scam, most Catholics won't even take it seriously.
Of course, getting rid of religious power is not enough. We need to do so in the Church. Clericalism must be obliterated, bishops elected and Catholic gay marriages performed (by married lesbian priests eventually). The latter is what happens when God is allowed to speak through the people. It is no accident that the Episcopleans celebrate gay marriage and the laity has a say in electing their episcopacy. Remember, Augustine was an elected bishop.
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