Douglas Wilson

He said, this is like the guy's a Protestant and he actually thinks it right now.

What I was doing was

imagining an ideal republic 500 years down the road and I was conceptually talking about what would you do in a protestant republic how do you balance how do you maximize religious liberty and liberty of conscience which I believe in with the public order the consensus that that society has grown up around Daugherty talked about how when the

when the restrictions on Catholics were being lifted in the United Kingdom, the Catholics wanted to celebrate with the Eucharistic procession, and the liberal prime minister begged them not to.

Please, please, please don't do this.

So basically, politics is the art of the possible.

So in the current moment, I want to stand with Catholics shoulder to shoulder against the secular Klingons.

I think we've got bigger fish to fry.

At the same time, when someone talks to me about, well, how do you conceptualize this?

Where is this all going?

I believe that simple honesty requires me to answer the question and not to be coy.

So if

If I were to conceptualize an integralist Catholic country, I wouldn't expect to get a parade permit for my sausage parade in Lent, right?

Und wir müssen uns zusammen gegen ihn beibringen.

Das ist das, was...

Sorry, this is what we call an inescapable concept.

It's not whether but which.

It's not whether you're going to impose a morality.

It's which morality you're going to impose.

It's not whether you have a theocracy.