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It is rare that the intellectual mendacity of the conservative worldview can be laid bare in a mere 200-something characters. But fortunately for us, Ben Shapiro has a Twitter habit even more prodigious than the President’s, and so here we are: served up the absurdity of the right’s version of liberty in just one paragraph, especially as regards religious freedom and its relationship to the issue of same-sex marriage.
So just to clarify, according to Shapiro:
It is not intolerant to oppose same-sex marriage or presumably homosexuality itself unless the person believing this forces others to think the same or live by that belief. One is free to disagree with conservative Christian or Orthodox Jewish opinions on these matters, and unless those who do so are mandated to live according to these beliefs — perhaps as in a theocratic society — there is no harm, no foul.
However, it is intolerant to force people to contravene their sincerely-held religious positions on these issues, perhaps by requiring them to attend same-sex wedding ceremonies even when…
