Are We Becoming Europe-lite?

jessicaprol / November 10, 2009

Is the US merely tagging behind its European neighbors on a road to a thoroughly secular, social democracy? As the Obama Administration stretches its fingers into education, health care and failing companies, the question lingers ominously. But columnist Cheryl Wetzstein notes that, when it comes to faith and family, we’re not quite there yet.

She supports her point with research highlighted at our Oct. 29th conference, Religious Practice and the Family. Wetzstein’s column in today’s Washington Times reads:

Earlier this year, American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray wrote a warning about American elites pushing America to become like Europe.

European social policies “drain too much of the life from life,” Mr. Murray wrote in a March article in The Washington Post called, “Thank God America Isn’t Like Europe.” (more…)