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David Frum: Can Religious Freedom Survive ‘Gay’ Liberation?Excerpted from Can Religious Freedom Survive Gay Liberation?, by David Frum, published Mar 9, 2007, by National Review: …The movement for gay equality has rapidly evolved into movement to restrict personal freedoms, including freedoms of religion and conscience. The British example is not a special case. What is being done there today will be demanded here tomorrow… Update: Andrew Stuttaford raises an excellent point on the Corner.
And of course he is right! When general laws are passed, they must apply to all. That is precisely why the gay rights movement is inherently an illiberal one. When you decide to extend your nondiscrimination principles to behavior condemned by your society’s majority religion, you are embarking on a course that will sooner or later require the state to police, control, and punish adherents of that religion. That was (or should have been obvious) from the start. Continue reading at National Review…
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