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Jacobins Of The Sexual Revolution

Law professor Douglas Laycock says the left’s victory in the culture war is going to mean a big loss for religious liberty. We can get an idea of where this is going by considering the position of the Church in post-Revolutionary France, he says. Excerpt: “They [the French] take a much narrower view of what religious […]

Law professor Douglas Laycock says the left’s victory in the culture war is going to mean a big loss for religious liberty. We can get an idea of where this is going by considering the position of the Church in post-Revolutionary France, he says. Excerpt:

“They [the French] take a much narrower view of what religious liberty means,” Laycock said. “The biggest reason is because in France religion was on the wrong side of the revolution. In America the churches were on the right side of the revolution.”

Laycock asked the audience to consider the question: “What if we had a new revolution in our time?”

“The sexual revolution that began in earnest in the ’60s carries on with the current front about same-sex marriage and now contraception, which had been a neutral zone for a long time,” he said. “Conservative churches in this country have been consistently on the losing side of that revolution.”

“Like the Catholic Church in France they oppose not just the revolution’s excesses but they oppose its core,” he said.

Laycock said debates over sexual issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, contraception, sterilization and emergency contraception all share one thing in common.

“What one side views as a grave evil the other side views as a fundamental human right,” he said. “And for tens of millions of Americans, conservative churches have made themselves the enemies of liberty. And for tens of millions of Americans, what religious liberty now does is empower their enemies, and that, in their view, is a bad thing.”

Signs of the times.

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