Quote - Actually, getting to the core of the issue, and stripping away the extraneous modern-sophistry does work.

No. It really doesn't. Decent, well meaning, moral people find plenty of room for disagreement on this and most other issues. That's why the pendulum swings. If it were not the case, nearly every matter of contention would have been  thoroughly resolved and written in stone long ago. Life's complicated. You and the right-wing brigade insisting otherwise doesn't change that.