Bull Connor Was Also A Victim of Liberal Intolerance

For better or worse, I got out of the boat on this one, and can assure you that Roy ain’t lyin’. Dreher does tell a story in which a mother refuses to have anything to do with her son because he comes out, and he really does think the son is the bad guy for saying so. In comments, when he describes certain actions as “cruel and wrong,” he’s referring to the son mentioning what happened to him. There’s also stuff about “honor culture,” which is apparently intended to be a positive description as long as it involves Southern Christian bigotry.