Social conservatives see “Two Americas.” Unlike the two Americas that John Edwards saw in 2004, these two Americas are divided morally. Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America says that we have one side that “says other human beings should be used for your own sexual pleasure, and if someone else is a burden to you, if they are unwanted, then simply eliminate them, abort them.” And another side that “respects morality…wants to put an end to the killing of little human beings who have been designated as less than human” because “of where they are located — inside a woman — or because of how small they are, or because they don’t yet look like you and I do.” They also want to, “protect marriage because we recognize that marriage is the distinct union between a man and a woman, and it is the foundation to a stable society.”

Columnist Ben Shapiro said this is because “Common sense used to tell us these things were bad, but common sense is dying.”

“Now, we have to have social scientists prove to us that chopping off your own leg hurts your self-esteem and therefore is bad before we decide that we’re against self-mutilation,” he stated.

“Social liberals don’t pretend to know right from wrong, or even to care,” he said. “They simply claim they have a right to act as they please as long as they’re not physically harming you.” He described this as a “phantom” right – one that is never explained but “just spring up anonymously, magically.”

“Conservatives understand, by contrast, that rights are granted to us by our Creator to enrich human existence,” he said. As a result, “conservatism is not about standing idle in the face of immorality. It never has been. Slavery didn’t hurt white Northerners physically, but they sure had a right to destroy the institution.”

America is divided in a way that I don’t think we’ve seen since the Civil War and the issue of slavery and it seems to mirror the same issue – the value of human life. How can this issue be resolved? Will it ever be settled through politics or is there another Civil War in our future?