Viewpoint Neutrality Protects Both Drag Queens and Christians

Late last week I debated Sohrab Ahmari at Catholic University. Our exchange was of course inspired by his broadside against me in May, a broadside that began (oddly enough) with a seemingly-random tweet about something called "drag queen story hour." Sohrab wrote, "If you can't see why children belong nowhere near drag, with its currents of transvestic fetishism, we have nothing to say to each other. We are irreconcilably opposed. There's no polite, David French-ian third way around the cultural civil war. The only way is through." This is the tweet that launched a thousand think-pieces.