In His Ideal Protestant Republic, Catholic Processions Would Not Get Parade Permits
So if I were to conceptualize an integralist Catholic country, I would not expect—I wouldn't expect to get a parade permit for my sausage parade in Lent.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2026, from Michael Knowles, cited to the source.
[Michael Knowles: "Cuz you got in a lot of hot water when you said, 'Well, look, in a Christian nationalist view, we would be banning all sorts of nonsense and the gay stuff and pride and all this.' And Catholic processions, you know, a Eucharistic procession or a Marian procession."] ...Now, what I was doing was imagining an ideal republic 500 years down the road, and I was conceptually talking about what would you do in a Protestant republic?... So basically politics is the art of the possible. So in the current moment, I want to stand with Catholics shoulder to shoulder against the secular Klingons... At the same time, when someone talks to me about, well, how do you conceptualize this? Where is this all going? I believe that simple honesty requires me to answer the question and not to be coy. So if I were to conceptualize an integralist Catholic country, I would not expect—I wouldn't expect to get a parade permit for my sausage parade in Lent.