“It’s something like Nietzsche’s narrative—the “Nowhere Man” poised to make something of his own individualism and will to power—that creates the plausibility structure of contemporary living in the West. Its central dogma is the will to power and its doxology is actually self-congratulatory, like Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” It yields masters and consumers rather than pilgrims and disciples.”

SSM opposition isn’t really about gays at all; it is the battleground where the incompatibility of Christian anti-individualism with American individualism finally come in conflict. Sorta like how Russia and USA fought in Vietnam — Vietnam itself really had very little to do with that conflict.