Understand, there is nothing wrong with working on the culture. Nothing wrong with advancing the good, the true, and the beautiful. But working on these things does not and should not preclude working on politics. As we tend to say in Washington, D.C., it is not either-or, it is both/and.
The problem with “politics is downstream from culture” is that it may instill a kind of stasis in people: Well, I am raising my kids, and after all, we have that reading group that meets every month. Isn’t this how we change the culture? Isn’t this how we change politics way down the river? And all the while, right down the street, they are teaching sodomy to children.
Sure, learn swing dancing. Go to your reading group. But also, pound on the door of the local school board. Politics cannot wait for culture. Andrew Breitbart would agree.
While the gist of this argument is sound, in the common vernacular, a Supreme Court decision is not “politics.” Especially decisions that not only lack a basis in truth or law, but are consciously intended to undermine them. The only way for these tyrannical decisions to be accepted in the culture is if the culture, or at least, a critical mass, is open to it and the part of the culture opposed lacks the faith to resist it forcefully and robustly. Instead, “conservative” and “republican” politicians simply rolled over rightly judging that all the energy in culture and politics was on the side of the left. This lack of cultural resistance to depravity and lack of resolve for truth, beauty, and goodness is amply demonstrated by the milquetoast response of clergy and their congregants.