From Tolerance to Equality

A new managerial elite has ascended to power in the American academy, learned professions, corporations, religious bodies, and government. Darel Paul not only charts how this elite has led the country to normalize homosexuality but also shows how the campaign for same-sex marriage constitutes this elite’s identity in our time. Paul tells no simple morality tale of ‘enlightenment’ overcoming benighted ‘intolerance.’ He demonstrates how this elite’s aspiration to win each battle of the Culture War compromises their capacity to rule and be ruled and their capacity to defend crucial individual liberties. From Tolerance to Equality is a must-read showing how our Culture Wars are the leading edge of factional conflict in America.

~Scott Yenor, Professor of Political Science, Boise State University

The apparent paradox of our nation’s wealthy and powerful elite leading the charge for marriage equality can no longer go unexamined with the publication of Darel Paul’s important and consequential book. His study raises unavoidable and even uncomfortable questions about possible connections between the entrenchment of class inequality and elite-driven advances of sexual equality in today’s America. This book deserves to be widely-read, candidly discussed, and strenuously debated.

~Patrick J. Deneen, David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies, University of Notre Dame

A welcome and perceptive challenge to prevailing narratives of same-sex marriage.

~Alastair Roberts, The Gospel Coalition

This book will be of significant importance to anyone interested in sexuality, social class, and cultural change.

~Choice

…From Tolerance to Equality is a compelling work of social science explaining some of the most important and rapid social changes of the past half-century with great insight, and scholarly integrity.

~Robert Maranto, Academic Questions