"I wonder how many of them would have the courage of their convictions if that were the likely outcome of their little legal-literary exercise."
I suspect that large numbers of them -- or of their fellow travelers -- would be willing to suffer legal sanctions for their opinions. I think that they are wrong, but I see no particular reason to suppose that they are insincere. It is always nice to imagine that those we disagree with are also cowards or hypocrits, but reality has a nasty way of refusing to script itself as precisely the sort of morality play that we might prefer. NBO -- ****************************** Nathan Oman "It is a misleading cult that teaches that the remedy of our ills is to have the law give over, once and for all, the strivings of the centuries for a rational coherence, and sink back in utter weariness to a justice that is the flickering reflection of the impulse of the moment." -- Benjamin Cardozo -- _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.