</span> Cultural liberalism is a liberal view of society that stresses the freedom of individuals from cultural norms. Some cultural liberals believe that society should not impose any specific code of behaviour, and they see themselves as defending the rights of non-conformists to express their own identity however they see fit. Other cultural liberals hold that society should support liberal codes of behavior, and suppress illiberal codes of behavior, such as racial and gender prejudice. <ref> Andrew Kernohan, Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0521627532 </ref>

The culture wars in modern American politics are usually drawn between cultural liberals and cultural conservatives. Cultural liberals argue that all religions and forms of worship (or lack thereof) should be tolerated, they are strongly opposed to censorship or any kind of oversight of spoken or written material, they believe that the structure of one's family and the nature of marriage should be left up to individual decision, and they argue that no lifestyle is inherently better than any other. American conservatives usually argue that the government should support Christianity and the traditional family, and oppose pornography.