Raising children in this new kind of America is going to have to be different than the way most of us were raised. We grew up believing there wasn't anything we couldn't do. The sky was the limit, we were told! You can be anything you want to be when you grow up! But in case you haven't noticed (and I'm sorry to break this to you if you haven't), all that's changed in the last few years. Oh, most of the changes have been subtle, to be sure, though some have been screaming-in-your face changes like the insistence that we all deny science and recognize an ever-growing number of genders. But to date, only a few people have lost their jobs or their businesses as a result of conflicts between their faith and the strict new American moral code, so it's easy to feel like "it can't happen to me" ‐ or to my kids.
But Rod Dreher, a columnist at The American Conservative, warns in The Benedict Option (an excellent book that has been unfairly maligned) that American Christians now have targets on their backs.