“Expressive individualism holds that each person has a unique core of feeling and intuition that should unfold or be expressed if individuality is to be realized.”7 Individuality may be the goal, but as Keller observes with the Anglo-Saxon warrior imagery, identity forms in community. And communities shape which values can contribute to our identity. No one is free to be anything they want, especially when the government imposes secular views of sexuality on law and public education. Power convinces everyone they’re expressing their individual identity, while instead they’re all doing the same
...more
