'Why Hungary?' The New Yorker Asked Me - The American Conservative

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : LGBT is the neuralgic point on religious liberty, though, because that's where the clash is.
53% : In 2006, Maggie Gallagher published in the Weekly Standard a really interesting article about same-sex marriage, based on a bunch of interviews she did with legal scholars on both sides of the issue.
52% : When she expressed shock that he would dare to ask his mother a question like that, he explained that same-sex experimentation was common in his peer group.
50% : I do wonder how many such judges could have been holding on for thirty years after the demise of Communism, but I heard this explanation so often, and from some very smart people, that I assumed there must be truth to it.
47% : However, we are moving quickly to a de facto situation here in the US in which the religious liberty of traditionalist Christians - that is, non-woke Christians - is going to diminish greatly.
46% : They're two Western liberals who analyze in that book why liberal democracy and free markets didn't take off as the West hoped in the post-communist countries.
46% : If the Equality Act passes, all churches and religious institutions that hold to the Biblical view of homosexuality will be treated as pariahs in law and culture, reduced to the same level as the Ku Klux Klan.
42% : During this period, there were a number of state referendums in which voters rejected same-sex marriage.
40% : We have never had an honest conversation in America about the irreconcilability of gay rights with religious liberty for traditional Christians, Jews, Muslims, and others who do not fully endorse the gay rights agenda.
39% : She told Gallagher that in the end, we cannot fully protect religious liberty and fully protect gay rights - and when the two conflict, said Feldblum, religious liberty has to give way.
38% : It also troubles me that in Russia, Evangelicals and Jehovah's Witnesses lack the religious liberty that Orthodox Christians like me have.

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