Rod Dreher flips out over the fact that teenagers are increasingly comfortable with experimental bisexuality. This alone isn’t shocking, but that he singled this fact out as more disturbing than murder is pretty surprising. It’s not surprising that he believes it—-I suspect that Dreher, in his heart of hearts, thinks that you spend more time in hell for violating patriarchal gender roles than for killing. But that he’d admit it is funny. He tries to take it back in a few updates, but with his fingers crossed behind his back:
To clarify: I’m not saying that the teenage culture of bisexuality is worse morally than murder, for heaven’s sake. Obviously murder—and murder of one’s own family—is about the worst thing imaginable.. I’m simply saying that I was more shocked by this tidbit about the decadent teenage culture in a tiny Texas town than I was by the foul crime itself. Big difference.
It’s not taking, of course, because normal people realize that well-adjusted human beings, even teenagers, would balk a lot sooner at murdering their whole family than experimenting with bisexuality, which is a normal part of adolescence. It’s just not as closeted as it used to be.


