PART II: WHY LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES ARE NOT A GOOD IDEA
It's Un-American
Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.
Copyright © 1996 Peter McWilliams & Prelude Press
Last Revision: December 2, 1996
Every effort to confine
Americanism to a single pattern,
to constrain it to a single formula,
is disloyalty to everything that
is valid in Americanism.
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
I hate people
who are intolerant.
LAURENCE J. PETER
He who passively
accepts evil
is as much
involved in it
as he who helps
to perpetuate it.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
It gives me great pleasure indeed
to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist
warmly acclaimed.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
So Mainline Christians allow
the television preachers
to manipulate their audiences,
most times to their own financial
gain, by making the most absurd
biblical claims without their being
called to accountability
in the name of truth.
BISHOP JOHN SHELBY SPONG
If any man have a stubborn or rebellious Son, of sufficient understanding and years, viz. fifteen years of age, which will not obey the voice of his Father, or the voice of his Mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them; then shall his Father or Mother, being his natural Parents, lay hold on him, and bring him to the Magistrates assembled in Court, and testify unto them, that their Son is Stubborn and Rebellious, and will not obey their voice and chastisement, but lives in sundry notorious Crimes, such a son shall be put to death.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die.
The ugliness of bigotry
stands in direct contradiction
to the very meaning of America.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
That at any rate is the theory
of our Constitution.
It is an experiment,
as all life is an experiment.
JUSTICE
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs.
I am determined
my children shall be brought up
in their father's religion,
if they can find out what it is.
CHARLES LAMB
A De Kalb County, Georgia, Superior court ruled that Gary Eugene Duda, 35, could change his first name to "Zippidy." Duda said that he had already been called "Zippidy" by friends for most of his life.
Restriction of free thought
and free speech
is the most dangerous
of all subversions.
It is the one un-American act
that could most easily defeat us.
JUSTICE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS