The Left was for nondiscrimination laws before it was against them

Published April 29, 2016 4:03am ET



There was a time when civil rights meant supporting nondiscrimination laws. But an increasingly aggressive progressive movement, led by advocates of abortion and sexual deconstructionism, have quickly shifted to opposing nondiscrimination laws.

Oh, they’ll claim the opposite. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced its opposition to “religious liberty” laws (scare-quoted, of course) and declared that “protections ensuring nondiscrimination, as embodied in the Constitution, laws, and policies, are of preeminent importance.”

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