Yes, we are to be salt. Salt is a preservative sprinkled on meat to prolong its use as nourishment. The key notion for us to remember is that meat is dead . It cannot be revived, nor cured. It will never moo again.
Society is dead meat.
It will never do the tango again. Our job as the salt of American culture is to delay its decay. Political activism will not preserve society one additional nanosecond. My caution is for you fundamentalists and evangelical Christian warriors who may have foamed too much at the mouth against homosexuality to be careful not to cross the line into hatred. We are simply hating the sin.