moral vision is not something that can be completely privatized and survive – what do you mean by “privatized”? If “divorced from the government”, how do you reconcile that statement with your aversion to nanny-statism? If “hermetically sealed within each individual’s bosom, unable to affect his actions” – who is arguing for that?

Simon seems to see more reflection of himself in the great and good American people than is justified. Hoffman was running to fill the seat of a man with a 100% pro-life rating. He ran against gay marriage on the same day it was outlawed a few hundred miles further east in Maine.