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[Unedited] Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is It Morally Immoral in Europe?

Liberal democracies have adopted mechanisms that marginalize moral considerations. Government nowadays, in a liberal democracy, will generally refuse to take a moral stand. So politicians find it very, very difficult to make a moral statement. And if you dare say that certain forms of family are better than other forms of family, then that's it. You're in exile for a lifetime. But, oh, that gets into difficult territory about governments deciding what is moral and good? Well, yet, i'm not critical. There's something superficial about your lon ofit....

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