Commentary Three years ago, my family resigned our membership in the non-traditional synagogue that had been our religious home for more than 40 years. The end came suddenly after I published a controversial column in a Jewish community newspaper. Without prior consultation, my rabbi joined 25 other progressive rabbis and educators across Canada in denouncing me publicly as a misogynist, a homophobe, and a transphobe. So there was no other choice. But by then, my attachment to the synagogue could in any case be said to be “running on fumes” from a previous era and a more intellectually ecumenical rabbi. What had I written that was so inflammatory? I had pointed out that the three hottest social issues of our era—abortion, gay marriage, and transgenderism—share a common denominator: all three reverse or thwart natural procreation. Yet affirmation—even celebration—of all three has become a litmus test for moral standing among left-wing …