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it got me arguing with my friends and even with some of my teachers. It’s an ongoing argument…

and those of us who do have a religion are ridiculed as being saps from money-grubbing preachers or priests.""

a majority of Americans already agree that gay couples should be allowed to join in secular unions with the rights and responsibilities that generally accompany marriage.

by giving him a “free” issue. It was free because he – and other “pro-life” Republicans – could strongly oppose all abortion without alienating moderate Republican women and men who favored a woman’s right to choose but felt secure in the knowledge that the Supreme Court would c...

and act as if your belief were the least popular.

Rene Casin and Albert Schweitzer. Our great hope was the United Nations with its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our mantra was FDR’s “Four Freedoms:” freedom of speech and expression; freedom of worship; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

which earned me both the respect and the concern of my frightened parents

I didn’t focus on Jewish rights or on Israel. There were bigger and more serious problems facing America

and the legal issues growing out of it.”

and we gave only two days for registering

the division of war-making responsibility between the President and Congress

pioneer in the international protecting of human rights. The seminar taught future lawyers how to defend foreign dissident clients and how to promote human rights in other nations.

now a cabinet member of the Israeli government. When I represented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His mother and wife asked me

Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was over we got onto the same elevator. Remarkably

and the list includes some performers who “were not aware of the cultural boycott.”