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Should we compromise on the right to bear arms? Free speech? The freedom from cruel and unusual punishment? What else?
If gay marriage is deemed a right protected under the United States Constitution, Pan, tell me why the hell there should be compromises?
You would allow the public to hold sway over the constitutional rights of minority groups?
Let me be clear, Pan, upholding constitutionally protected rights is not "thrusting and imposing one's will onto others"; it's upholding a universal claim that everyone is entitled to.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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