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...surrender," says Greaves, "just a retreat to safer ground." The resolution, which stands, declares homosexuality to be "incompatible with the standards to which this community subscribes." That apparently makes Cobb County, where the lynching of a Jewish man in 1915 sparked a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the only government jurisdiction in America to declare homosexuals officially unwelcome. Says the Rev. Charles Scott May of St. James' Episcopal Church in Marietta: "People are feeling insecure. The world is changing. They're confronted with different cultures and personal values, and it scares the hell out of them." One factor that...
...Cayhall, in his late 60s, is a onetime Ku Klux Klan bomber convicted in his third trial of blowing up the law office of a Jewish civil rights lawyer in 1967 and of maiming the lawyer and killing his two small sons. All that can be said in favor of Cayhall is that he shows a certain gritty courage as his execution approaches and that he regrets the death of the two boys and of a black man he killed in a rage years before. He was raised in a K.K.K. family, however, participated in several lynchings, and still believes...
...just that year, when Provost Jerry R. Green suggested that speech has its limits--and that he would "not sit idly by" if the Ku Klux Klan were marching through Harvard Yard--his words were called "menacing" by a prominent Law School professor...
...Green suggested that free speech has its limits. "I can't tell you that if things got really out of hand, I wouldn't say, listen, what you're saying is really disruptive and I'd like you to stop," Green said at the time. "If the Ku Klux Klan were marching through Harvard Yard, I wouldn't sit idly...
...example, take affirmative action. There are many rational arguments against it; those arguments are rational no matter who says them. But I would look very differently on those same arguments if they were presented by a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan rather than by Shelby Steele...