Reflections on Faith and Culture: From "Sacred" to "Self-Evident" to "Subjective"

Reflections on Faith and Culture: From "Sacred" to "Self-Evident" to "Subjective": "For a 1986 update on the 'process of inversion,' Rieff refers to the key sentence from the dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court case, Bowers v. Hardwick.

A Supreme Court ruling states: 'The most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men' is 'the right to be left alone.' The right to be left alone here is an utterly blind version of the rebellion against sacred orders; Justice Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall, and Stevens have not the slightest idea of what they are saying."