Gavin Newsom’s declaration this week that transgender athletes should not have the right to compete in girls’ and women’s sports was perhaps the clearest sign we’ve seen that the Democrats believe that transgender rights in sports are a losing issue.
Yes, indeed. Even Christians share this default libertarianism, though less enthusiastically. It's difficult to defend even to oneself moral views that you can't also articulate in basic common-sense terms. If a practice doesn't seem to harm anyone else, or even the practitioner, coming up with a convincing explanation for why it's "wrong" is a challenge. Even if you say "Because God's against it," someone's going to ask "But why?" And even if we're ok with grounding some aspects of our own lives on beliefs the grounding of which remains mysterious, we aren't comfortable legislating that over others.
Not sure if you read Damon Linker's Substack, but he had a discussion of this awhile ago you might be interested in:
Yes, indeed. Even Christians share this default libertarianism, though less enthusiastically. It's difficult to defend even to oneself moral views that you can't also articulate in basic common-sense terms. If a practice doesn't seem to harm anyone else, or even the practitioner, coming up with a convincing explanation for why it's "wrong" is a challenge. Even if you say "Because God's against it," someone's going to ask "But why?" And even if we're ok with grounding some aspects of our own lives on beliefs the grounding of which remains mysterious, we aren't comfortable legislating that over others.
Not sure if you read Damon Linker's Substack, but he had a discussion of this awhile ago you might be interested in:
https://damonlinker.substack.com/p/when-a-cultural-revolution-reverses