The current mini-fracas fracturing the Right has little to do with President Trump or even tone, as Sohrab Ahmari insists, but rather which trade-offs each coalition of the Right has made. No one can doubt that David French, a devout Evangelical Christian who opposes same-sex marriage as a matter of policy and principle, has maintained a more libertarian demeanor to homosexuality on a personal level. This attitude can be summarized with a comment made by Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew who also believes homosexuality is a sin, when asked if he would bake a cake for the hypothetical wedding of Dave Rubin, who is gay.

“As a religious Jew, I do not participate in activities I believe are sinful, but again, we live in a free country,” Shapiro said in a sit-down with Rubin in 2018. “Does Dave have a husband? Yeah. Are we friends? Yeah. And are we going to go out to dinner some time in the near future? Yeah. But there’s a difference between me just being friends with Dave and me actively participating in an event that I feel is religiously sinful.”