What is the Gruntled Center?
Most Americans love God and their families. Most Americans are
contented with God and their own families. They are gruntled -- the
opposite of disgruntled -- about the core conditions of their lives.
They worry about their communities and society as a whole, especially
if they think that problems in society will come back to dishonor God
or hurt their families. Most Americans can form a gruntled center for
themselves.
Politics is a competition. The small left and small right wings
compete to draw that center one way or the other. The strategists and
salesmen and women of the extremes have to exaggerate the differences
in order to make the center afraid of the other side.
The Gruntled Center aims to bring a calm consideration of the real
facts about religion and family life to help people in the center keep
their bearings in the midst of the competing claims about "family
values" and "rational thought."
I am sociologist and teacher by trade, and a churchman and family man
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