It may seem strange that anyone could look around the pornography-saturated, fertility-challenged, family-breakdown-plagued West and see a society menaced by a repressive puritanism. But it\u2019s clear that this perspective is widely and sincerely held.<\/p>\n
It would be refreshing, though, if it were expressed honestly, without the \u201cof course we respect religious freedom\u201d facade.<\/p>\n
If you want to fine Catholic hospitals for following Catholic teaching, or prevent Jewish parents from circumcising their sons, or ban Chick-fil-A in Boston, then don\u2019t tell religious people that you respect our freedoms. Say what you really think: that the exercise of our religion threatens all that\u2019s good and decent, and that you\u2019re going to use the levers of power to bend us to your will.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Republican elite\u2019s secret weapon is that compared to the Left\u2019s open and naked hostility to religious believers, benign neglect and disinterest is vastly preferable. One of Romney\u2019s aces in the hole is that the Left may not be able to restrain its idiotic persecuting contempt for, you know, the overwhelming majority of Americans. Romney may luck out if the anti-Judeo Christian fascists refuse to learn from the Chik-Fil-A effect and cannot bring themselves to restrain their naked hatred and intolerance.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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