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September 19, 2015

EPIC New Meme PERFECTLY Defines What a Liberal Really Is

The Wall Street Journal reports on the growing intolerance on the left to view different than their own:
The paradox is that even as America has become more tolerant of gays, many activists and liberals have become ever-more intolerant of anyone who might hold more traditional cultural or religious views.
Thus a CEO was run out of Mozilla after it turned out that he had donated money to a California referendum opposing same-sex marriage.

Part of the new liberal intolerance is rooted in the identity politics that dominates today’s Democratic Party.
That’s the only way to explain the born-again opportunism of Hillary Clinton, who tweeted: “Sad this new Indiana law can happen in America today. We shouldn’t discriminate against ppl bc of who they love.”
By that standard, Mrs. Clinton discriminated against gays because she opposed gay marriage until March 2013.
But now she wants to be seen as leading the new culture war against the intolerant right whose views she recently held.
The same reversal of tolerance applies to religious liberty.
When RFRA [Religious Freedom Restoration Act] passed in 1993, liberal outfits like the ACLU were joined at the hip with the Christian Coalition.

But now the ACLU is denouncing Indiana’s law because it wants even the most devoutly held religious values to bow to its cultural agenda on gay marriage and abortion rights.
Liberals used to understand that RFRA, with its balancing test, was a good-faith effort to help society compromise on contentious moral disputes.
That liberals are renouncing it 20 years after celebrating it says more about their new intolerance than about anyone in Indiana.

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