Washington Post: Changing Patterns in Social Fabric Test Netherlands' Liberal Identity - by Molly Moore

Dutch Parliament in the Hague
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Changing Patterns in Social Fabric Test Netherlands' Liberal Identity - by Molly Moore

For years, W.B. Kranendonk was a lone ranger in Dutch politics -- the editor of an orthodox Christian newspaper in a nation that has legalized prostitution, euthanasia, abortion and same-sex marriage and allows the personal use of marijuana. Today, with an orthodox Christian political party in the government for the first time, and with immigration anxieties fueling a national search for identity, the country that has been the world's most socially liberal political laboratory is rethinking its anything-goes policies.