I was driving across my adopted state of South Dakota. It was a long drive. All of the drives across South Dakota are the long drives. (OK, enough with the Hemingway schtick). To stay awake at the wheel, I took a stab at calling the national talk show on the car radio. Lo and behold, I wound up on air with conservative commentator Mark Steyn. I stammered into a nervous rant about all of the corruption and decline in everything - government, church, you name it. The host stopped me and said something like, Now wait a minute. We expect such behavior from politicians. But from those who claim to represent eternal verities? We should be able to expect something better. Flash back to the early 80s. I'm a self absorbed seminarian. In chapel, one of the cresting wave of feminist students (LGBT wave welling up right behind) was in the pulpit. There will be no rape in the kingdom , she intoned, and then narrowed her eyes and made a...