I published a couple of translations in First Things, and I wasn't then troubled by what I perceived to be a conservative and religious philosophy that I didn't share, but there came a point when I felt they shifted from conservatism as a philosophy I thought wrong, to conservatism that was a rationalization for hateful and thoroughly reprehensible bigotry and intolerance. We all have to draw the line somewhere, and I don't condemn those who draw the line elsewhere than where I draw it, but to my great regret I decided some time ago that I could no longer send them any of my work. It's too bad, since they do publish poetry that has little to do with their hateful agenda, and they do have a large audience, but I don't want to participate in dignifying a magazine whose overall role seems to be justifying bigotry and hatred.
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