Friday, March 09, 2007

Can Religious Freedom Survive Gay Liberation?   [Andrew Stuttaford]

That's the question David Frum asks over on his blog.  Sure it can.

The more interesting question however is the extent to which religious belief should be privileged above all others. You can, quite legitimately, question the range and definition of anti-discrimination laws, but once a democracy has put those laws in place, I can think of no particular reason why some people should be exempted from that law, simply on the grounds of religion. To do so is to say that religious belief is somehow more deserving of special protection than other (perhaps no less deeply held) ideologies, an idea that, however well-intentioned, is irrational at best, dangerous at worse.

03/09 11:36 AMShare