You don't have to pick Hushed Whispers because you support mage freedom or think that picking Champions means you don't. It might be harder to get a Divine, Leliana, who supports mage freedom if you go with the latter but it must be possible because there is an epilogue slide for it. The mage rebellion joined up with a Tevinter cult who were advocating mage supremacy. They were doing absolutely the worst thing you could do if you wanted to convince ordinary people that free mages could be trustworthy. You don't get the codex on a King Alistair play through but with Anora as Queen it states that she persuaded her people to agree into giving the mages sanctuary, they were given the most defensible castle in Ferelden as their refuge and then they handed it over to a foreign power. Anora's position was considerably weakened as a result and her citizens are unlikely to be as trusting of mages as a group again.
I like to think that if Dorian had been in Fiona's position he would have turned down that sort of offer from the Venatori. He was not asking your help to support the mage rebellion in Hushed Whispers but to stop the Venatori. He takes it on the chin when you don't help him but probably understands the reasons why you don't, particularly once he is at Skyhold and talks with you. After all, if you conscript the Templars you have actually disbanded the order. All the pro-Circle people are really unhappy about that.
I agree with the analysis of Dorian in relation to Roderick and what it shows about him. It is noticeable that on the Hushed Whispers path that role is taken by Cole. Then when we recruit Dorian and Cole, we are criticised and warned not the trust them. Apparently the members of our team are clearly less compassionate and caring than either Dorian or Cole, since they ignored Roderick as he is dying and left him in the care of someone they patently distrust, while they argue among themselves.
It is probably interesting to leave out Redcliffe but I must admit you would have to be really hardline Chantry to do that, since when Fiona invites you there, it is before she has been recruited by Alexius, and so it is only reasonable and fair minded to go and hear what the mages have to say. Once you discover that the Venatori have taken over the mage rebellion, it makes sense to go and try and get the Templars on side not simply to close the breach but to have some magic supressing specialists on hand when you confront them. The Hushed Whispers plot works out because it is written that way but looked at from a logical point of view, it is madness to send the only person capable of closing the breach into an almost certain trap by people capable of controlling other people's minds with blood magic. Leliana's forces overcoming the Venatori was altogether too easy; if it was that simple and the rebel mages were really that unhappy with Fiona's leadership, why didn't they just do the same? There are meant to be hundreds of them. The fact is their ranks were infiltrated by Venatori long before Alexius put in an appearance.
Another reason I prefer Champions is that I find the time travel idea absurd and also there is far less red lyrium growing up around Thedas. With Hushed Whispers you find it on the surface in places other than Emprise du Lion, with Champions it is confined to there and a few caves.
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