I hate the way so many terms have been corrupted and slanted. "Sex positive" is one of the worst examples. It's sheer propaganda; anyone who disagrees with utter degeneracy as normative just hates sex, and is bad and negative.
If you can criticize my sex-positive views, I can criticize your sex-negative views. Goose. Gander.
Yup. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
Are we now seriously claiming that the guy who signed the Alien and Sedition Acts was a great lover of freedom?
The American of today is morally superior in every aspect to the 1860's American or 1950's American. Though I decry the moral issue of our time - which are many, because Utopia is not an option - the modern American neither owns slaves, nor does he send off his countrymen to random countries to die for his political opinions by virtue of a military draft, nor does he disenfranchise half the country by grace of their gender, nor does he suppress his political opponents in the way Lincoln went after the Copperheads.
We forget - because we keep being enamoured with the things we do love about the 19th century and first half of the Twentieth - that people there were evil, evil bastards. It is in the 19th century that people invented Progressivism, Socialism, Communism and the Prohibition (though it passed much later of course).
Besides, to look to the Federalists as the source of moral and political wisdom is a bit... meh. They believed that a Bill of Rights was unnecessary; They claimed there was no need for a 10th Amendment because it was OBVIOUS that the Constitution would never expand beyond the boundaries of explicitly-granted authority and then they went and did just that the moment they came to office. And anybody who reads Federalist 10 can't help but laugh at either the naivete or the ouright evil of the author.
