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Earlier today, I published portions of a letter that Kansas Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall sent to the University of Kansas Law School in which he resigned from his teaching position in protest of how the school is violating the principles of the legal profession with militant politics. In particular, he noted that some law students have complained that they fear for their physical safety because an Alliance Defending Freedom attorney will be in the law school building to give a presentation. In his letter to the law school, Justice Stegall said that suppressing dissent within the law school and allowing law students to believe they have a right to expect it both fails to produce people qualified to practice law and undermines the fundamental liberal democracy. In response to Stegall’s post, a prominent professor of Christian law later emailed me:

I raise my children in faith. They are great kids. It pains me to realize that if I am successful, I am probably setting them up for a life of ostracism, obscurity, or ketman.

yes This is the reality that all faithful Christians face. More on that in a second. But first he sent a link to this piece by law professor Jonathan Turley. Extracts:

In a column in the Wall Street Journal, Robin Keller, a partner at Hogan Lovells, wrote about being fired from the firm after a remarkable 44-year career. Keller was not fired for misappropriating funds or breaching client confidentiality. She was fired for exercising free speech at an internal meeting about the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. After Keller expressed her support for the opinion and her concern about higher abortion rates in the black community, the attendee complained that she couldn’t breathe and others called her a racist. She was later suspended and allegedly fired.

Lawyers for the company called for Keller to be fired, saying they were “traumatized” by having to hear someone defend the decision on a call to allow people to discuss the decision.

Let’s repeat this one more time. . . these are lawyers traumatized by their colleague’s dissenting opinion on abortion, a view shared by millions of other Americans, as well as by many judges and magistrates. This is a view that has been widely expressed in the media, including by African-American commentators.

I understand how such arguments can offend or anger others. Pro-life lawyers, on the other hand, can also be deeply offended by pro-choice arguments. Abortion is an area that has torn this country apart for generations. The addition of race only increases the passion and anger in such debates. However, it is an area that raises difficult constitutional, social, racial, economic and gender issues.

However, instead of dealing with Keller’s why they believe she is wrong, these attorneys asked her to leave the call and then demanded that she be fired for voicing her views. As we have seen on college campuses, it has become common to try to silence others rather than engage them in such discussions.

In recent years, we have seen journalists and lawyers advocate for censorship or control of speech. This is the subject of my recent publication in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Article titled “Harm and Hegemony: The Decline of Free Speech in the United States.”

Nowhere is this troubling trend more evident than with lawyers who say they “can’t breathe” while asserting free speech.

Attorney Robin Keller’s Wall Street Journal column is unpaid; you should read it. The situation was even worse, as prof. Turley. Extract:

Everyone else who spoke on the call was united in her anger and exasperation with Dobbs. I spoke to offer a different perspective. I noticed that many legal scholars and commentators felt that Roe was the wrong decision. I said the court was right to send the case back to the states. I added that I think abortion rights advocates have brought a lot of backlash against Roe upon themselves by promoting extreme policies. I mentioned the many reports of disproportionately high abortion rates in the black community, which some have called a form of genocide. I said I thought it was tragic.

The outrage was immediate. The next speaker called me a racist and asked me to leave the meeting. Other attendees said they “lost the ability to breathe” when they heard my comments. After more of the same, I hung up.

Someone made a formal complaint to the company. Later that day, Hogan Lovells suspended my contracts, cut off my client contacts, removed me from email and document systems, and emailed all US staff that a forum participant had made “anti-black comments” and was suspended until Investigation. The company also released a statement to the legal website Above the Law in which it regretted the devastating impact my views had on forum participants – most of whom were lawyers participating in a call convened specifically to discuss controversial legal and political topics. Someone leaked my name to the press.

She was denounced to the entire company as a racist for saying that a disproportionate number of black babies die from abortion and that this is a bad thing. This is Wake Kafka.

This will continue to happen until and unless we fight back and fight hard. As far as I know, the only meaningful weapon conservatives and old-fashioned liberals have is politics — given that the awakened left has taken over virtually every major institution in American public life. But what can politicians do? I ask as an honest inquiry. What kind of pressure can they put on the legal profession (to cite just one example) to make it turn from its soft totalitarianism? Are conservative strategists figuring this out? We will all be in the gulag before the current Republican Party does anything about it.

What did the Christian law professor say about his children? I wrote about this five years ago in The Benedict Option. Extracts:

I have spoken with many Christians in fields as diverse as law, banking, and education who are facing increasing pressure within their corporations and institutions to publicly declare themselves “allies” to their LGBT colleagues. In some cases, employees have the option of wearing special badges that advertise their alliance. Of course, if one doesn’t wear a badge, she’s likely to face questions from co-workers and even shunning.

These workers fear that this will soon serve as a de facto loyalty oath for Christian employees—and if they don’t sign it, it will virtually mean the end of their jobs and possibly even their careers. To sign the oath would, in their opinion, be the modern equivalent of burning a pinch of incense in front of a statue of Caesar.

In most places, it will be impossible to obtain work licenses without confirming the dogma of sexual diversity. For example, in 2016, the American Bar Association voted to add an “anti-harassment” rule to its model code of conduct, which, if adopted by state bar associations, would make it easier to discuss issues related to homosexuality (among other things). impossible without risking professional sanctions – unless one takes the progressive side of the argument.

In this sense, it will be very difficult to have an open dialogue in many workplaces without putting ourselves in danger. One Christian professor at a secular university’s science faculty refused to answer my question about the biology of homosexuality because he was afraid that anything he said, no matter how innocuous and fact-based, would get him accused by his university , as well as attacked by social media. Everyone who works at a large corporation will be frog-marched through “diversity and inclusion” training and will face pressure to not only tolerate LGBT co-workers, but to affirm their sexuality and gender identity.

In addition, companies that do not comply with state and federal anti-LGBT discrimination laws will not be able to receive government contracts. In fact, according to one religious liberty attorney who has had to defend clients against a dizzying array of anti-discrimination lawsuits, the only thing standing between an employer or employee and a lawsuit is the imagination of LGBT plaintiffs and their lawyers.

“We are all vulnerable to this kind of targeting,” he said.

A religious liberty attorney says, “There is no imminent resolution to these conflicts; there is no plateau to be reached any time soon. Just a boost. It’s a train that won’t stop as long as the momentum and the track are there.”

Let me remind you: that was five years ago. more:

Christian students and their parents must carefully consider this when deciding on a course of study at a college or vocational school. A nationally prominent physician who is also a devout Christian tells me he discourages his children from following in his footsteps. Doctors will now and in the near future deal with issues related to gender, sexuality and gender identity, as well as abortion and euthanasia. “Patient autonomy” and non-discrimination are principles that override all considerations of conscience and doctors are expected to follow.

“If compliance becomes a matter of license, they will have nowhere to hide,” said this doctor. “So what do you do if you’re $300,000 in debt from medical school and you have a family with three kids and a sick parent? A difficult decision because there are not too many parishes or church communities that would step in and help.”

In past eras, religious minorities were excluded from certain professions. In the Middle Ages, for example, anti-Semitic fanaticism in Europe prevented Jews from participating in many trades and professions and relegated them to marginal jobs that Christians did not want to do. For example, Jews entered banking because medieval Christianity considered usury to be sinful and forbidden to Christians.

Likewise, orthodox Christians in the coming age will have to adapt to an age of hostility. The blacklist will be real. In Canada, the legal profession is trying to bar law graduates from Trinity Western University, a private Christian liberal arts university, from practicing law – punishing the school for not being progressive enough on LGBT issues. Similarly, an LGBT activist group called Campus Pride has put more than 100 Christian colleges on a “list of shame” and called on businesses and industry not to hire their graduates. It is unwise to ignore the influence of groups like this on corporate culture – and this will in turn have a devastating effect on Christian colleges.

“Challenges to Christian education – especially higher education – are about to get aggressive,” said one legal scholar. “Degrees from unaccredited universities or universities that cannot produce graduates or receive federal research dollars are of very low value.”

Does this mean that no Christian should go to medical school – or law school or vocational training to enter other fields? Is not necessarily. However, this does mean that Christians should not take it for granted that in some area the challenges to their faith will not be so great that they will have to choose between their Christianity and their career. Many Christians will be forced to support themselves in ways that do not compromise their religious conscience. This requires prudence, boldness, professional creativity and social solidarity among believers.

Of course, the next book, Live Without Lies, deals with even sharper matters of persecution. It’s here, in many places, and broader measures are coming harder and faster. This morning, on the set of a talk show in Bratislava, I said that the rest of us in the West owe a deep debt to the leaders of the underground church in Slovakia during the communist era, because they showed us Christians how to endure suffering and persecution without breaking down. . In response, the Slovakian professor told me that it is absurd to say that what we have today is anything like the communist era. Well, sir, just wait: What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.

Robin Keller’s fate is a bell. Everyone else in this company has now been warned: If you cross the line, the company will destroy your reputation. Robin Keller isn’t going to the gulag, thank goodness, but she’s out of a job and may struggle to find a job elsewhere, having been called a “racist” and fired — all because she spoke at a meeting called to discuss the decision Dobbs, and defended that Supreme Court ruling.

Christians—and orthodox Jews, Muslims, and anyone else whose religious or moral beliefs place them on the other side of the awakened—should realize that this is the world in which we all live. I strongly urge everyone to fight as hard as they can while they still can. But at the same time, it is better to prepare yourself and your children for a faithful life in a world in which many social and professional doors will be closed to them because of religion. You think this can’t happen in America? Sir, it already is! And it will get worse.

I would much rather have my children be poor, marginalized, but faithful than rich, powerful, and apostates or functional apostates who chose to hide their beliefs to protect their wealth and status. I wonder how long those Christians who write off the possibility of Benedict as alarmism will be able to maintain this coping strategy. I wonder how much longer the churches in America can pretend everything is going to be fine if we just hang our heads and wait. I don’t wonder if most American Christians will be willing to sacrifice bourgeois comforts, status, and success for the sake of following Christ: of course they won’t! They will rationalize their compromises. They will practice ketman, a term used by Czeslaw Milosz in his magnificent 1950s book The Trapped Mind, detailing how and why intellectuals submitted to communism. I quote it in this excerpt from Live Not By Lies, where I talk about what happens when someone finds themselves in a situation where showing their true self would be professional or social suicide:

You become an actor, says Miłosz. You learn the ketman exercise. It is a Persian word for the practice of maintaining an outward appearance of Islamic orthodoxy while inwardly disagreeing. Ketman was a strategy that everyone who didn’t truly believe in communism had to adopt in order to avoid trouble. It is a form of mental self-defense.

What is the difference between ketman and plain old hypocrisy? As Miłosz explains, being “on” all the time inevitably changes a person. An actor who constantly immerses himself in his role eventually becomes the character he plays. Ketman is worse than hypocrisy, because constant living by it corrupts character and, ultimately, everything in society.

Miłosz identified eight different types of ketmans in communism. For example, “professional ketman” is when you convince yourself that it’s okay to live a lie at work because that’s what you have to do to have the freedom to do good work. “Metaphysical ketman” is the deepest form of strategy, a defense against “total degradation”. It consists of convincing yourself that it is indeed possible to be a loyal opponent of the new regime while working with it. Christians who cooperated with communist regimes were guilty of metaphysical ketman. In fact, says Miłosz, it represents the ultimate victory of the Big Lie over the individual soul.

Under the emerging tyranny of vigilantism, conservatives, including conservative Christians, learn to practice one or more forms of ketman. The most deluded are those who convince themselves that they can live honestly within awakened systems by conforming outwardly and learning how to adapt their beliefs to the new order. Miłosz had their number: “They’re cheating the devil who thinks he’s cheating them. But the devil knows what they are thinking and is pleased.”

It seems very un-American that you have to prepare your children to fail in the eyes of the world if they are to be faithful to Christ. But that’s where we are in the United States today. If you are in a church where the pastoral leadership does not want to see you, find another church. If this is neither possible nor desirable, then find other lay Christians who share your concerns and join together to form groups like Father Tomislav Kolaković’s, which was established in pre-communist Slovakia so that believers could support each other when persecution came. Slovak Catholic bishops told Father Kolakovič that he was an alarmist. But he knew better than those smug prelates — thank God!

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