{"id":1776309,"date":"2022-12-15T07:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776309"},"modified":"2022-12-15T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:48:35","slug":"ben-shapiro-the-slippery-slope-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-the-slippery-slope-never-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro: The Slippery Slope Never Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-shapiro-the-slippery-slope-never-ends%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776309&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/c34d4b7bcd161e60a994772c23fec049e0808151.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2006, then-Sen. Joe Biden ranted against the supposed irrelevance of a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage in federal law as one man, one woman. &#8220;We already have a law, the Defense of Marriage Act,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve voted, and others have said, look, marriage is between a man and a woman and states must respect that. Nobody&#8217;s violated that law, there&#8217;s been no challenge to that law. Why do we need a constitutional amendment? Marriage is between a man and a woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen years later, President Joe Biden stood on the lawn of the White House and chortled that he had finally enshrined same-sex marriage into federal law. &#8220;Today&#8217;s a good day,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A day America takes a vital step toward equality, toward liberty and justice, not just for some, but for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A vital step. Not the final step. Not the culminating step. A vital step.<\/p>\n<p>The language here is important because it is revealing. Biden and his allies have an agenda that goes far beyond the redefinition of marriage. The agenda is simple: use of government to obliterate traditional values and intermediary social institutions that embody them.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made this clear in his speech, in which he lumped together opposition to same-sex marriage with &#8220;racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia.&#8221; This is patent nonsense, of course. But it does set the groundwork for the actual transgressive agenda: to liken traditional views about marriage to pure bigotry. And this will necessitate governmental action against those who believe in marriage. After all, we as a society don&#8217;t tolerate racism on the basis of religious freedom. If Christian views about marriage are treated similarly, why <i> should <\/i> churches maintain their tax-exempt status while &#8220;discriminating&#8221; against same-sex weddings?<\/p>\n<p>Biden went still further. In championing same-sex marriage, he said that Americans &#8220;need to challenge the hundreds of callous, cynical laws introduced in the states targeting transgender children, terrifying families and criminalizing doctors who get children the care they need.&#8221; In other words, if you oppose the hormonal sterilization and surgical mutilation of minors as a pseudo-palliative for gender identity disorder, you are evil, and you must be stopped by force of federal law.<\/p>\n<p>The natural outcome of this agenda will be precisely what Democrats pretend now to oppose: anti-religious discrimination, educational cramdowns, threats to traditional parenting. And make no mistake: they are pretending. They have no rationale for drawing lines to hem in their cultural imperialism. When asked by CBS News correspondent Steve Portnoy whether protections for religious practice were &#8220;codifying discrimination,&#8221; White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answered, &#8220;Is there more work to do? Absolutely. There&#8217;s always more work to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1990s, Democrats denied that they wanted civil unions. They were lying. In the mid-2000s, Democrats denied that they wanted same-sex marriage. They were lying. Now Democrats say they don&#8217;t want religious discrimination or educational indoctrination. They are lying. In the end, what transgressives want is simple: a national state that stands as the god of a new moral system, and atomized individuals without recourse to intermediary institutions of community or civil society. <\/p>\n<p>And if the Republicans who voted for the Orwellian Respect for Marriage Act think that they have bought a respite from the predations of the Left by signing onto an erstwhile compromise, they will soon learn the error of their ways.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Shapiro, 38, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author; his latest book is &#8220;The Authoritarian Moment: How The Left Weaponized America&#8217;s Institutions Against Dissent.&#8221; To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"imageCaption\"><small>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/goto\/749536\/\" rel=\"external noopener\" target=\"_blank\">butwait<\/a> at Pixabay<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, then-Sen. 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