There may not be a more salient, newsworthy intersection of religion, culture and politics than sexuality and sexual behavior.

Religion-beat professionals know that this creates news — in religious traditions that are shrinking, as well as those that are stable or growing.

This brings us to politics. If one considers some of the major fights surrounding the so-called Culture Wars — abortion, pornography, same-sex marriage — they are all related, in one way or the other, to clashes between traditional forms of religion and the Sexual Revolution.

Yet, the data surrounding these types of issues all point in the same direction — the American public is liberalizing at an incredible rate.

The bottom line: It’s hard to find an issue area in which the average adult in the United States holds a view that is to the right of the average American even 10 years ago.

For instance, consider how this first graph demonstrates how public opinion has shifted on same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization since 2004.