The cultural — and legal — contradictions of intolerant progressives.
by Dennis Saffran, The American Spectator:
“At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
So spoke Justice Anthony Kennedy in his famous, or infamous, 1992 opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey largely reaffirming the right to abortion established twenty years earlier in Roe v. Wade. The passage has become the credo of modern judicial liberalism, the legal embodiment of a nonjudgmental therapeutic age in which the right to seek fulfillment, “actualization,” or solace in an array of psychological treatments of sometimes dubious validity is sacrosanct.
So long, that is, as the “concept of existence and meaning” that you seek to actualize is judged acceptable for you by the priests of nonjudgmentalism. If, however, it runs afoul of the ideological fashions of the day, then the political enforcers will come down on you and your emotional or spiritual counsellors like a ton of bricks.
One solution to the mystery of life that is particularly intolerable to the tolerant these days is the desire of some people who are primarily attracted to persons of the same sex to attempt to lead traditional heterosexual lives — perhaps because their predominant sexuality conflicts with deep-seated religious faith, intense desire to conceive and raise children the old-fashioned way, or simply with their sense of “who they are.” While in every other context, of course, liberals celebrate such a desire to “be yourself” (even favoring drastic medical and surgical alteration when, in the case of transgenderism, it conflicts with outward physical and sexual manifestations), in this one context they seek to legally prohibit it.
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