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The Prop 8 decision and the ?dictatorship of liberalism?

By Alliance Alert

Edward Feser writing at What's Wrong With the World: What we?re seeing here is just one more application of the fraudulent principle of 'liberal neutrality,' by which the conceit that liberal policy is neutral between the moral and metaphysical views competing within a pluralistic society provides a smokescreen for the imposition of a substantive liberal moral worldview, on all citizens, by force. (Of course, liberals typically qualify their position by saying that their conception of justice only claims to be neutral between 'reasonable' competing moral and metaphysical views, but 'reasonable' always ends up meaning something like 'willing to submit to a liberal conception of justice.') . . . Pope Benedict XVI has famously spoken of a 'dictatorship of relativism.' But I think that that is not quite right. Most liberals are not the least bit relativistic about their own convictions. A more accurate epithet would have been 'dictatorship of liberalism,' and in Judge Walker that dictatorship has taken on concrete form."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).