"If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals," says Chesterton, "it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. Thus it is considered more withering to accuse a man of bad taste than of bad ethics. Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence."
Chesterton could see from a century ago that the world was headed to a time when smoking a cigar would be considered more offensive than performing an abortion.
(By Dale Ahlquist - chesterton.org)
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