Intolerance of Religious Traditionalists Is NOT a Perversion of Liberalism
It is what liberalism was about right from the proto-liberals Hobbes and Locke on. Ed Feser notes : "But it’s not just about sex. It’s about egalitarianism itself, which, as Plato argued in The Republic , is inherently destructive of moral, legal, and rational standards, and has tyranny as its natural sequel. The egalitarian regime insists, notionally, on tolerating every opinion and way of life, and refuses either to judge any one of them as morally or rationally superior to any other, or to favor any of them in its laws. Yet no regime can tolerate what would subvert it. And the very idea that some views and ways of life are simply objectively superior, rationally and morally, to others, is subversive of egalitarianism. Hence egalitarian societies tend in practice to be intolerant of views which maintain that there are objective standards by which some views and ways of life might be judged better or worse. That is to say, an egalitarian regime in...