{"id":8188,"date":"2014-01-19T04:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/19\/liberals-as-diversity-fascists\/"},"modified":"2014-01-19T04:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T04:35:04","slug":"liberals-as-diversity-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/19\/liberals-as-diversity-fascists\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals as ‘Diversity’ Fascists"},"content":{"rendered":"

I refer to contemporary liberals as LINOs, liberals in name only.  Why?  See here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I couldn\u2019t believe it. I was trying to discuss traditional marriage \u2013 and the state was trying to stop me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Incredible, in a 21st-century European country, but true. I was invited to speak at a conference on marriage last summer, to be held at the Law Society in London. The government had just launched a public consultation on changing the law to allow same-sex marriage. The conference was a chance for supporters of traditional marriage to contribute to the debate. [. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

A few days before the conference, someone from Christian Concern, the group which had organised the event, rang me in a panic: the Law Society had refused to let us meet on their premises. The theme was \u201ccontrary to our diversity policy\u201d, the society explained in an email to the organisers, \u201cespousing as it does an ethos which is opposed to same-sex marriage\u201d. In other words, the Law Society regarded support for heterosexual union, still the only legal form of marriage in Britain, as discriminatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I refer to contemporary liberals as LINOs, liberals in name only.  Why?  See here: I couldn\u2019t believe it. I was trying to discuss traditional marriage \u2013 and the state was trying to stop me. Incredible, in a 21st-century European country, but true. I was invited to speak at a conference on marriage last summer, to … Continue reading “Liberals as ‘Diversity’ Fascists”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}