Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently spoke at a Catholic legal group sponsored by Advocati Christi, noting the hostility of some Americans to religious liberty and the need to “evangelize…religious freedom”:

Alito used his own words from his dissent in the Supreme Court’s landmark same-sex marriage case, telling the gathering he had predicted opposition to the decision would be used to “vilify those who disagree, and treat them as bigots.”

“We are seeing this is coming to pass,” he said, then mentioned Bob Dylan’s famous song lyric, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

“A wind is picking up that is hostile to those with traditional moral beliefs,” Alito said.

Incidentally, Justice Alito is a former US Army Captain.

The culture has long been in conflict with Christianity — but note he (accurately) said the wind is picking up. That is, the tide is growing.

What was known as a moral social standard is now hate.

What was once “prudish” is now called bigoted.

What was once called good has become evil.

And what was once was evil has become good.

Fortunately, despite this cultural shift, members of the US military remain free to exercise their faith, whatever their tenets might be, and whatever others may think of that faith.

Right?

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20