Some of you, especially those on the left side of the political aisle, are scratching your heads over Ben Carson’s recent surge in the polls. I get why you’re surprised, but you shouldn’t be.

This has definitely been the year of the outsiders in the Republican race, but this “outside” group may be more multifaceted than you think. Many people supporting outsiders are not just tired of business as usual from the beltway establishment. They are not just aghast at the disastrous direction in which this nation’s economy and foreign policy are headed. They are also heartsick and horrified over the nation’s moral and spiritual decline — their defeat after defeat in the ongoing culture war that is raging in this country.

Actually, it may be too charitable to our side to say there’s a war going on. It’s more like a relentless one-sided assault from the secular left on Judeo-Christian and traditional values, and conservatives have yet to declare war in return.

Despite the mainstream media’s anti-religion propaganda, it is Christians who are more tolerant, societally, while leftists want to force Christians not just to tolerate their cultural preferences, but also to embrace them. Christians aren’t the ones who are trying to turn long-standing societal mores upside down, and they aren’t the ones who’ve declared war against the left’s cultural or “spiritual” practices.

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Source: David Limbaugh, http://townhall.com