It’s a difficult time to be a social conservative. Gay marriage may be on the verge of becoming a reality from Maine to Maui. A large Gallup poll last week found that on a host of moral issues — from out-of-wedlock-birth and assisted suicide to cloning and gambling — Americans are moving leftward.

A Pew poll last month documented the rise of the religious “nones” and the decline of Americans who identify as Christians. And perhaps most befuddling to religious conservatives, when Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn Jenner and the new face of the transgender movement, he did so as a proud conservative and Christian.