In general the commentary on social conservatism's increasingly-uneasy relationship with classical liberalism would benefit from engaging with the ACLU's recent turn against the liberties of Catholic hospitals and adoption agencies.
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Maybe it's enough to blame "the left" and rely on the right-libertarians. But some right-libertarian takes on Ahmari seem a little too detached from how other forms of liberalism, incl. left-libertarianism, have evolved of late in their attitude toward traditional religion.
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These points are not really in my endless Ahmari/French piece for tomorrow which is why I'm sharing them with you fine people here for free.
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That the internal logic of JS Mill-style, "classical" liberalism was always going to lead to this outcome.
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Why? Ppl keep saying this. If this was all baked in, why did it take 200 years (and counting) ? And it still seems far from inevitable to me, what with the Supreme Court still upholding the right not to provide abortifacients, the right not to bake a wedding cake, etc...
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That Catholicism as currently practiced (along with traditional religious beliefs in general) are falling out of favor culturally, which (culture) eventually always overwhelms puny things like politics?
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Shorter: that Catholics are just plain *wrong* on many cultural issues?
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at least partly we should think that the ACLU has been shifting its understanding of its mission these past few years
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Yeah, from what I can tell, the old-line ACLUers have remained pretty consistent (I remember some serious concerns voiced at that memo suggesting that perhaps the ACLU ought not defend "hate groups"), but a different generation is coming up.
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Bush, Sr. campaigned on the ACLU being "far left." Conservative Catholics being even angrier at the ACLU doesn't explain their shift better than the hypothesis that they are motivated by a sense of impending defeat.
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If you don't want a lawsuit for discrimination against the public, don't take public money
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