deviancy

Duggar is playing on the old and false conservative conflation of non-heteronormativity with criminal deviancy.

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously indicted the cultural condition of “defining deviancy down.”

His computer was filled with content suggesting sexual deviancy or erotic artistry, depending on your point of view.

The late Sen. Pat Moynihan wrote of “defining deviancy downward.”