David nails it. Confidence in the moral truth of our beliefs & convictions should make us more, not less, secure in promoting free speech, free exercise, free conscience. We go forward with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1175152341944885248 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I still think people haven’t come down to the nub of this debate yet.
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Replying to @michaelbd
I think David has decisively won the argument on legal rights, legal strategy & the Constitution. The counter-argument is what to do 1) in politics/policy areas not constrained by Con Law or 2) in the culture broadly. But that risks agreement in lieu of argument.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I see. But even philosophically there are obviously types of disagreements or issues where reciprocity between equal persons (good) bleeds into reciprocity between good and evil.
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Replying to @michaelbd
I agree that if there is going to be a real debate on that point, it needs concrete examples. The Hadley Arkes point on SSM tiptoed up to that but didn't offer a case.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
So for instance, Charlie and I agree that Catholics should be free to found Catholic schools. We disagree about whether Flying Spaghetti Monster people would be doing something equivalent if they did.
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Replying to @michaelbd
Legally they could try, but we would be well within our rights to mock them for the ridiculous disingenuousness & incoherence of the project. As it stands, they run the public schools instead.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I prefer the American regime that made legislative accommodation for Catholics under prohibition or Quakers for the draft than the one that is trying to square the abstract circle between non-discrim, viewpoint neutrality, and RFRA.
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So did Scalia, which is how we got RFRA instead.
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Replying to @michaelbd @baseballcrank
Because now all these issues are extremely high stakes.
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