Nathan Berkeley

Associate Vice President, U.S. Strategies & Communications @RFInstitute

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@whignewtons Well stated and fundamental point, Sarah. This sort of confusion has been common over the years and is the fruit misinterpreting sex as a distinction in law (which Title IX does) with discrimination on the basis of “transgender identity.”

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

My latest essay at @XScholarsReview: “Our Words Must Reflect the Sacred Divide Between Human Action and AI Function” https://t.co/VdAqVXku38

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@markdtooley Figures like Partridge vacillate btw trolling & earnestness & delight in leaving unclear which they’re doing. This is a good example. Faithful Christians must denounce this tactic in full. It plays around w/ evil for effect without owning that evil and is thus deeply pernicious.

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@ryanburge @jamesrwoodtheo Perhaps the language of left and right wing populists works better here than liberals and conservatives.

[Peter Berkowitz @BerkowitzPeter]

"Prof. George Is Right: Principle Sustains American Conservatism," RealClearPolitics, Nov. 16, 2025
https://t.co/eMDg0VYgxz

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

A few days ago, I posted a brief statement of what I, as a conservative, seek to conserve. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound morality: the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family. Everything else I believe about ethics and politics in one way or another stands upon or presupposes that principle. Any form of “conservatism” (or “liberalism”) that denies it in principle or transgresses it in practice is alien to me.

That is why I believe that the conservative movement, though it can and should be a broad tent, simply cannot include or accommodate white supremacists or racists of any type, antisemites, eugenicists, or others whose ideologies are incompatible with belief in the inherent and equal dignity of all. As a conservative, I say that there is no place for such people in our movement.

So, while I understand and appreciate that politics is about “adding and multiplying, not subtracting and dividing,” and though I welcome conservatives representing a range of viewpoints on a wide swath of issues, I will not—I cannot—accept the idea that we have “no enemies to the right.” The white supremacists, the antisemites, the eugenicists, the bigots, must not be welcomed into our movement or treated as normal or acceptable.

Is this a call for “cancelation”? No. It’s a reminder that we conservatives stand for something—or should stand for something. We have core principles that are not negotiable.

I am—notoriously, for some of my fellow conservatives—committed to the principle of free speech for everybody, including people with whom I profoundly disagree even on the most important issues, indeed, including racists and other bigots. But defending their rights does not mean allying with them, welcoming them into our movement, or treating them as representing legitimate forms of conservatism.

I am also—again, notoriously, for some of my fellow conservatives—willing to engage people with whom I deeply disagree, so long as they are honest and are willing to do business in the proper currency of intellectual discourse, a currency consisting of reasons, evidence, and arguments. (It is pointless to engage bad faith actors, charlatans, and con men.) But, again, engaging and forcefully arguing against people who deny the inherent and equal dignity of all is one thing, welcoming them into the movement or treating their ideas and ideologies as representing legitimate forms of conservatism is something entirely different.

Let me be plain. American conservatism today faces a challenge. That challenge comes from those who reject our commitment to inherent and equal human dignity. They are seeking acceptance in the conservative movement and its institutions, and they do so with the ultimate objective of transforming them by undermining that commitment. They openly preach white supremacy and the hatred of Jews, among other noxious ideas. They no longer feel the need even to try to hide their bigotry.

It is incumbent upon those of us who maintain the “ancient faith” (to borrow a phrase from Lincoln) to make clear to friend and foe alike that we will not permit the integrity of our movement and its institutions to be compromised. We will not treat its foundational principle of inherent and equal human dignity as optional. On the contrary, we will insist on it, defending and advancing it with renewed dedication.

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@edstetzer In Mere Christianity Lewis offers his metaphor of the corridor, and off the corridor, many rooms. While the corridor represents Christian orthodoxy, no one can remain there in living the faith — they must enter a room. Why so many rooms? No authority to adjudicate disagreement.

[Religious Freedom Institute @RFInstitute]

NEW ARTICLE: "Let the Little Sisters of the Poor Be Faithful" by RFI President David Trimble and RFI Associate VP @nberkeley5 for @NCRegister.
"No more ultimatums. Leave them alone and #LetThemServe."
READ: https://t.co/STaXDxmNSD

[Robert Řehák @Robert_Rehak]

Eleven years since the #YazidiGenocide began. Hundreds of women and girls are still missing. Families continue to live in camps, waiting to return home. The #Yazidis are resilient, but they need our help: Help bring justice. Help bring the girls home. #HumanRights #FoRB #IRFBA

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@drantbradley This has to be one of the dumbest controversies ever...

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

I had the opportunity recently to speak on the podcast of a tremendous organization — @NapaLegal — on challenges to religious freedom in states that legalize physician assisted suicide. It is available here: https://t.co/HGsWklWmDW.

[Religious Freedom Institute @RFInstitute]

NEW ARTICLE: "New York’s Assisted-Suicide Bill Puts Conscience Rights at Risk" by RFI's @nberkeley5 in @NCRegister https://t.co/Qme3O1NWvv

[Daily Christianity @christianityonx]

Taken from a letter written to his daughter as she embarked on her college search.

https://t.co/vz0ZJGeW16

[Daily Christianity @christianityonx]

Faithful Christian universities do not have answers to all questions, and they are not perfect places with perfect people, but they are able to engage a number of big questions about human nature, human flourishing, our world, and the God who created them in ways that other kinds of schools simply cannot.

Nathan Berkeley
@nberkeley5

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@WonderWomaNinja Why share this on X instead of addressing it internally and seeking a remedy with leaders at your church?

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@JackPosobiec @rightresponsem https://t.co/Tz0D8mqG4i

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@rightresponsem https://t.co/Tz0D8mqG4i

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@Brian_Sauve Will you encourage the same of progressive President?

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@rightresponsem https://t.co/Tz0D8mqG4i

[Nathan Berkeley @nberkeley5]

@Will_Tanner_1 Will you encourage the same of the next progressive president?