Are We Really Getting Morally Better?

That's especially true when we try to talk about moral progress.

Barack Obama loved telling us that "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." Joe Biden always assures us that history is moving towards "Progress," which is why we're lectured to be "On the right side of history".

Republicans then turned to polygamy, not resting until federal laws punished polygamy and Utah was compelled to write its prohibition into its first state constitution.

As Princeton Prof. Robert George observed, it was Republicans who fought the moral scourges of the nineteenth century.

Looking back at our moral "Progress," I wonder if we don't owe Utahans an apology.

Maybe we should actually kick Utah out and admit Deseret instead. After all, moderns declare that "Love is love." Well, if "Love is love," why do the number of persons involved matter? Indeed, if one is quantitatively prolific, isn't he arguably more loving? What we once called "Polygamous" we today call "Polyamorous." It's not just po-ta-to/po-tah-to.

If "Love is love," why not? So, as long as we are resurrecting ancient barbarisms under new labels, how about the push in Michigan to legalize commercial baby-buying, AKA "Commercial surrogacy?" Michigan's lower house already signed on; the legislative package is now pending in the Senate. 

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