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One of the nice things about being the Top Conservative Podcast is that we get to have the coolest and smartest people on the right stop by to chat. Case in point this week as we welcome two of the biggest brains on the right, Yuval Levin and Dr. Thomas Sowell. Yuval's WSJ essay The Next Conservative Movement is a must read, and while you're at it, order his forthcoming book The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism. Re-building the party is topic of Yuval's segment, and we welcome your suggestions in the comments below. With Thomas Sowell, things get a little more somber as he is no fan of the presumptive nominee of the party. The good doctor explains why he's not a fan of The Donald, or of the voters who have propelled him to where he is today. Finally,we send out 90th birthday greetings to Jerry Lewis from a certain podcaster with a French brother-in-law. Guess who.
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Levin talks in generalities of moral diversity, so let me put it into concrete terms.
A gay couple in California gets hitched under California law. That "married" couple then moves to Alabama, where they demand to be legally recognized as married. Alabama Christians are legally required to play along with the farce and teach their children that, "Well, it's not what we would call marriage, but government calls it marriage and we can't call it something different without getting sued."
Not only will the Left certainly not let up on this winning battle, with many Republican voters at their side. Not only does the Left pursue normalization through the courts and national media regardless of legislative victories. Legal tradition requires that one state recognizes marriages from other states... and now this will be twisted so that non-marriages when incorrectly identified must be accepted and normalized as marriages, even if the traditional state remains free not to produce the fiction itself.
How, concretely, does Levin expect to dodge this fight? By what arrangement will traditional Christians and fellow travelers be legally tolerated to openly declare our disapproval and deny legal recognition of these fantasies in local communities?
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Jerry Lewis, born March 16, 1926...
Did we lose a month?
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So true! See how out of it I am?
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There are a couple of good Jerry Lewis movies. "The Bellboy" is pretty good. There are some good sequences in "The Errand Boy."
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