SSM AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: Maggie replies to Andrew Sullivan

It's not of course that I am against any compromise. I have been attacked in some quarters for being too willing to compromise. I am against using the Constitution to ban civil unions and I am against using the Constitution to establish them.

On the religious liberty point, Andrew is skirting some serious realities here. If you don't believe me, believe Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard law professor, who wrote in the WSJ:

"Religious freedom, too, is at stake. As much as one may wish to live and let live, the experience in other countries reveals that once these arrangements become law, there will be no live-and-let-live policy for those who differ. Gay-marriage proponents use the language of openness, tolerance and diversity, yet one foreseeable effect of their success will be to usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before. Every person and every religion that disagrees will be labeled as bigoted and openly discriminated against. The ax will fall most heavily on religious persons and groups that don't go along. Religious institutions will be hit with lawsuits if they refuse to compromise their principles."
posted by Eve at 3:20 PM VOTE

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