McGrath: Of course someone who identifies "God, Marriage and Motherhood" as parts of the Right Wing agenda is telling us about himself/herself and not about reality. He/she is a Right wing Kulturkaempfer as Pat Buchanan says. When he/she says "marriage and motherhood," he means setting up cultural police to enforce his sexual norms on everyone else.

But McGrath, you have said it before, in your opinion the Left-Right distinction is purely a matter of economics and not about "cultural' issues or how people should live. If you feele that is the distinction should be, I may agree with you. But if you are saying, that is the distinction which exists in the real world, you are simply mistaken. The issues which most deeply divide people, in the United States at least, are essentially cultural and not economic. Economic differences can ultimately be compromised. Cultural differences can't. There is no compromising abortions; they are allowed or they can't. Likewise Gays are either o.k., or they aren't. If the line were simply between rich and poor, in a democracy the poor would always win. And that just doesn't happen.

Now, of course, I'm only talking about the United States. Maybe in England things are different. Maybe there, it's only economics. Although when I was there, in the 1960's, someone had posted signs all over London, saying "Vote Labour for a N========= neighbour!" That sounds like a cultural issue. And there seems to be lots of feeling about whether fox-hunting is inhumane.