Obama's Unnecessary Culture War

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- Politicized culture wars are debilitating because they almost always require partisans to denigrate the moral legitimacy of their opponents, and sometimes to deny their very humanity. It's often not enough to defeat a foe. Satisfaction only comes from an adversary's humiliation.One other thing about culture wars: One side typically has absolutely no understanding of what the other is trying to say.That is why the battle over whether religious institutions should be required to cover contraception under the new health care law was so painful -- and why it was so hard to...

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