The American Spectator
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Only about one-fifth of Americans attends a religious service on a weekly basis.
The decline in religiosity is particularly concerning for American conservatism and the “religious Right” that has animated politics for decades.
The loss of faith doesn’t just mean that Americans are more likely to spend their Sunday morning at bottomless brunch.
Mary Frances Myler: The right doesn't win by ceding issues like gay marriage now that transgenderism has arrived on the scene.
Traditional religion has given the Right its moral imagination, explaining that gay marriage is wrong because marriage between a man and a woman is good, that abortion is evil because life is sacred.
Now that religious disaffiliation is on the rise, Myler says, the moral imagination doesn't just dry up and vanish.
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