The Exact Moment When Progressivism Becomes Religion

Affirmation laws could violate the Establishment Clause

In fighting monsters, heroes inevitably become monstrous. When normal everyday people react to progressive extremists messing with their communities—think parents resisting trans affirmation occurring without their consent—their responses are captured, photographed, and delivered to the masses as yet another illustration of the monstrous bigotry that we must constantly resist.

The masses receive this gift happily—right wingers want to beat up and kill minorities of every variety, and that they, by clicking on the correct Current Things, are valiantly fighting back. The left provides the anti-inflammatory balm of tolerance. The heroes become the monsters, and the state becomes the hero.

This simulacra has been running since at least the Civil Rights Era, with Rosa Parks herself—a practicing activist for a decade before the bus incident—being a perfect example.

However, the latest hero-monster to be vanquished by the state “transphobia,” seems different. And it seems different because it …